Academic Programs

 Medicaid Nurse Aide (MNA) Program

Thank you for your interest in the Medicaid Nurse Aide (MNA) Program. This one course program is designed specifically for employees of long-term care facilities. It will provide knowledge and skills for nurse aides to assume the role and responsibility required in long-term care. The focus of this course is communication, infection control, safety, residents’ rights, and basic nursing skills and is designed for degree seeking students specifically in the health career field. The 1987 Omnibus Reconciliation Act (OBRA) mandated education and competency evaluation for all nurse aides employed by Medicaid reimbursed LTC nursing facilities in all states. This course complies with the applicable Medicaid regulation (42 CFR 483.152) that requires a 75-hour nurse aide training program to include a minimum of sixteen (16) hours of supervised on-site clinical instruction.

Specifically, this course provides students with opportunities to develop the educational and skill preparation necessary to satisfy the requirements to take the Medicaid Nurse Aide State Competency Examination. This course is based upon the Federal and State guidelines that prescribe the course content for Nursing Assistants to work in a long-term care environment. Recent changes have made this course a prerequisite for many nursing programs.

Additional information regarding the online MNA program may be obtained from the primary contact: Pat Walters at Hazard Community & Technical College. You may also contact the following faculty:

• Jane Harper at Southeast Community & Technical College,

• Carolyn Ballinger at Gateway Community & Technical College,

• Marilyn Knoth at West Kentucky Community & Technical College, and

• Anna Larson at Jefferson Community & Technical College.

If you are already a current KCTCS student with a “Home College” and are interested in enrolling in this web local course, the following colleges offer the MNA program on campus and may be able to supervise the on-site clinical requirement:

• Ashland Community & Technical College,

• Big Sandy Community & Technical College,

• Bluegrass Community & Technical College,

• Bowling Green Technical College,

• Elizabethtown Community and Technical College,

• Gateway Community & Technical College,

• Hazard Community & Technical College,

• Henderson Community College,

• Hopkinsville Community College,

• Jefferson Community & Technical College ,

• Madisonville Community College,

• Maysville Community & Technical College,

• Owensboro Community & Technical College,

• Somerset Community College,

• Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College, and

• West Kentucky Community & Technical College.

If you have any questions about the program or the requirement, please contact the Medicaid Nurse Aide Coordinator at your Home College.

Medicaid Nurse Aide curriculum guide