The Certified Nurse Aide Semester A course is a course designed to introduce you to the topics that you must learn to take the competency evaluation to become a certified nurse aide. The course will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to perform your duties as a nurse aide. The course consists of four units. The first unit will explain how to communicate, work in a team, and be culturally competent when working as a nurse aide. The second unit will introduce you to medical terminology, abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and body structure and directional terminology, which will help you communicate accurately when performing your duties as a nurse aide. The third and fourth units will help you recall the different human body systems. These units will also describe disorders and diseases related to the body systems and their treatments.

The Semester B course will provide you with the knowledge and skills that you need to perform your duties as a nurse. The course consists of four units. In the first unit, you will learn basic nursing skills and how to best care for clients. The second unit will introduce you to different types of clients and how to provide quality care to them depending on their varying needs. The lessons in the third unit cover topics related to infection control, waste management, and cost containment. Finally, the fourth unit will introduce laws and ethics related to nurse aides and their duties.

Licensing for Edmentum's CTE content is a per student licenses licensed for 12+months. Students then receive access to a complete CTE library allowing for greater exploration of content and progress through specific concentrations.