The Arkansas Medical Association (AHCA), which represents the state nursing houses and assisted life establishments, has a new initiative that will be introduced this summer and will come with a location in Rogers.
It will be known as the LPN program of the Ahca Nursing School. There will be campus in Rogers, Jonesboro and Little Rock with the first cohort that took 24 registered with the location for a general of 72 students. The objective is to provide an education program to qualified nursing assistants (CNA) to climb the professional scale and download complex diplomas and an upcoming salary beyond the entry level that serve.
CNA provides maximum practical care for health patients. The new nursing school will allow nurses to gain MA-C (qualified certification of qualified medications), LPN (approved practice nurse) and with all probability nursing certifications (authorized nurse).
The industry as total wants more nurses at all levels, but it is complicated with the hours of operation that AIIC obtains a complex certification. The average salary for a CNA in Arkansas is around $ 17. 13 consisting of the time. A MA-C gains $ 20. 07 according to Hour and an LPN earns $ 29. 60 according to the time.
For the AHCA program, an AIIC will have to be advised through an administrator of its comforts to be eligible, so it is not an open registration program and an student will have to have an AIC experience. The 10 -month program lasts 3 days a week at the user and is considered a full -time program, with 24 hours, of course, clinical, laboratory and / or simulation activities scheduled every week.
The Rogers campus is located in New Hope Road in a construction that once an independent life center. Students will be informed in elegance and will do clinics in a variety of physical care comforts in the region.
The MA-C Program Examine program has been controlled since 2023 and led to crossing rates for one hundred percent for 320 CNA that received the superior designation. There is no charge for the program once the student is accepted by the advice of an installation administrator.
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