Nurses’ aides

The Nurses’ aides curriculum is designed to foster the emergence of a new skills profile, in line with the country’s new healthcare strategies, within the limits of his or her professional responsibilities. Under the responsibility of a Nurse, the Nurses’ aides must be able to:

GENERAL Nurses’ aides,

Medico-sanitary technical agent, medical analysis option

Medico-sanitary technical agent mortuary attendant option

Objective

The Nurses’ aides must be able to:
1. Respond to the health needs of an individual or group, taking into account their cultural dimension and personality.
2. Provide promotional, preventive, curative and rehabilitative care, within the limits of their competence, involving both the individual and the group.
3. Participate in the application of the country’s health and social policy.

Teaching

Within the framework of the new program, each teaching team will determine the teaching objectives that will enable students to progressively acquire the knowledge, attitudes and aptitudes that forge the profession.

Training is organized into subject areas and modules of varying length, depending on the importance of the discipline being taught. Each training week consists of thirty-five hours.

Students are required to attend classes and internships. An unjustified absence of one month means repeating the year. The hourly breakdown of theoretical and practical training is 1190 hours. Internships total 420 hours. Each area of training requires one or more assessments, the time allocated to assessments being included in the training time.

Skills

The aim of the training is to enable caregivers to carry out each of their roles while respecting the ethical and legal aspects of their profession.