The geriatric aide curriculum is designed for certified nursing assistants to become a geriatric aide. The curriculum focuses on innovative nurse aide care and clinical topics such as pressure ulcers, depression, dementia and challenging behaviors, mental health and death and dying. Each area incorporates person-centered care concepts. The curriculum can provide a template for other states interested in creating a similar curriculum.
The curriculum is divided into five main topic areas and several modules within each topic area: Person-Centered Care; Nurse Aide Tasks; Nutrition and Hydration; Challenging Behaviors; and Pain and Palliative Care. The documents listed below include the instructor manual for each topic area, the participant manual for each topic area and the PowerPoint slides that accompany each module.