In operation since the start of the school year last September, nursing assistant training is now available at the Saint-Joseph Institute.
After a few months of installation, a visit by local elected officials accompanied by various stakeholders from the medical community and teachers was organized in Saint-Joseph.
Premises located near the institute’s refectory with accessibility from the exterior side of the establishment, this is where, since September, 11 students with Bac pro Sapat and bac ASSP (Accompanying personal assistance service) for the majority of them receive lessons from health service professionals.
The expression of a request
This training, lasting 11 months, should lead to a state nursing assistant diploma. Health executives, the two trainers, Catherine Prospert and Elisabeth Frillou recognize in these adapted infrastructures very favorable structural conditions for the teaching of a profession which requires daily personal investment. What’s more, the various officials recalled the almost imperative development of personal assistance services (increased lifespan, home support).
The conditions for admission to this training: training leading to the state nursing assistant diploma, equivalences of skills, skills blocks or partial or complete reductions in certain training modules are granted to students holding the titles or diplomas: DEAP (2005 and 2021), bac pro ASSP, bac pro Sapat, TP ADVF, DEAES (2016 and 2021), TP ASMS, ARM and DEA (paramedic).
The public concerned: be aged 17 on the date of entry into training (no exemption possible) and there is no upper age limit.
A short training, consequently, which leads to the delivery of a state diploma of nursing assistant allowing to work with the patient and in pair with the nurse with practically an almost immediate possibility of employment at the resulting from the training.
A job, a passion
This dynamic profession within a multidisciplinary team has multiple modes of practice. Demanding, both in terms of the technicality of the procedures performed on patients, it also requires commitment and a particular look at the elderly, sick or disabled.
Cindy, Léa, Orlane, Djina and Liana, the students, were present during this visit. They all showed a propensity to turn towards others. For these young future caregivers, it is a real call to a profession that they unanimously find very enriching: “We are the first contact with patients and this is not trivial”, they explain.
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