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Patient Care Pathways

Learn to perform basic cardiac life support, provide hospital-setting care and identify patient health concerns as a patient care technician (PCT). Expand your Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) skills to provide more care to patients and increase your contributions to your healthcare team.

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Acute Care Team Skills

Add a Patient Care Pathways Certification to your CNA license. You can better support nurses and other healthcare professionals in a hospital or other acute care setting with this training. 

Explore a variety of acute conditions and related therapies, understand your legal and ethical responsibilities as a caregiver and appreciate your role as a patient advocate.  

Work with licensed professionals in our clinical experience to gain a sense of the daily routine for a patient care technician worker. 

Workforce Ready

Our program is streamlined so you can start working as a patient care assistant or nurse aide tech with less than 10 credit hours (in addition to the five credits required for CNA certification). 

Classes You'll Take

These are some examples of courses in our Patient Care Pathways program.

  • Certified Medication Aide
  • Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals
  • Health Professionals Medical Terminology
    Degree and Certificate Options

    Patient Care Pathways (Certification)

    Program Length

    13.5 Credit Hours

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