Our Training Programs
Inland Christian Academy of Nursing (ICAN) offers premier healthcare training programs that quickly launch your career in nursing. Our fast-paced, 6-week Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) course equips you with essential patient care skills, preparing you to confidently enter the healthcare workforce. Expand your career opportunities with our Home Health Aide (HHA) program, gaining specialized skills to deliver compassionate, personalized in-home care. Enhance your credentials through our Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, ensuring you’re ready to respond effectively in emergencies. At ICAN, you’ll receive high-quality, faith-based training that positions you for success in today’s thriving healthcare industry.
Certified Nurse Assistance (C.N.A.)
Train for a healthcare career through ICAN’s state-approved CNA program in Riverside. Explore class details, clinical training, tuition, and enrollment options.
- Approved by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the school of Nurse Assistant Certification Training Program (NATP), is a 6-week entry level nursing program.
- The role of the C.N.A, typically work at a facility in a team. The facility could be long-term care, assisted living, a skilled nursing facility or a hospital.
Curriculum Guide for the Nursing Assistant Training Program /Course Content
| Introduction | Patient Rights | Interpersonal Skills |
| Prevention Management of Catastrophe & Unusual Occurrence | Body Mechanics | Medical & Surgical Asepsis |
| Weights & Measures | Patient Care Skills | Patient Care Procedures |
| Vital Signs | Nutrition | Emergency Procedures |
| Long-term care Patient | Rehabilitative Nursing | Observation & Charting |
| Death & Dying |
Home Health Aide (HHA)
Home Health Aide curriculum hours in addition to long term care nurse assistant curriculum hours are 40 minimum hours (20 theory hours and 20 Clinical hours) to complete the course and obtain a certification to perform home health aide duties.
This curriculum is designed to be combined with nurse assistant courses or for educating students that are already certified as nurse assistants. The curriculum topics are as follows:
| Subject Title | Total hours | Theory hours | Clinical practice hours |
| Introduction of Aide and Agency Role | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Interpretation of Medical and Social Needs of People being served | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Personal Care Services | 20 | 5 | 15 |
| Nutrition | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Cleaning and care task in the home | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Total | 40 | 20 | 20 |
American Heart Association Certificate e-cards
BLS (CPR)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare professional’s trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality CPR, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED
What does this course teach?
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- Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
- Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
- Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
- Airway management
- Related pharmacology
- Management of ACS and stroke
- Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
Healthcare Training for Riverside and Nearby Communities
Students attend ICAN’s healthcare training programs from throughout Riverside and nearby communities. Learn more about reaching our campus from Jurupa Valley, Highgrove, Woodcrest, and Home Gardens, or explore our current class schedule.