Health Occupations

CNA

Applications for admission to the college may be picked up from the Admissions Office in the Hobble Building on the main campus of SCCC. Students taking the course are also required to pass the TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) with a score of 563 or greater. Call the Testing Center at 620-417-1042 to schedule your test.

CMA

Applications for admission to the college may be picked up from the Admissions Office in the Hobble Building on the main campus of SCCC. Students taking the course are also required to pass the TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) with a score of 576 or greater. Call the testing center at 620-417-1042 to schedule your test. Students must pass their CNA exam before being enrolled in the CMA course.

NOTE: If a student tests above 563 for the CNA but not at 576, they must retake the TABE before enrolling in the CMA course.  

Kansas Resident in Seward County tuition and fees is $144 per credit hour. Kansas Resident tuition and fees $148 per credit hour. Border state tuition and fees is $172. Out of state tuition and fees is $187 per credit hour. Seward Online course tuition and fees is $181 per credit hour.

Tuition (5 hours @ in state) $740.00

Background Check (adults only) $72.00

Liability Insurance $60.00

Lab Fee $30.00

Testing $38.00

Total $940.00

CNAs and CMAs can pursue employment in settings such as:

• Hospitals
• Clinics
• Assisted living centers
• Nursing homes

The Students as Partners Program (SAPP) for Certified Medication Aides is a single-course program that helps students learn principles for safe administration of medication and importance of being an effective member of a team within a long term care facility. A CMA is taught the importance of focused approach to preparing and administering medications and continually seeking opportunities to learn more about medications.

The Students as Partners Program (SAPP) for Certified Nurses Aides is a single-course program that helps students learn principles necessary to assist licensed nurses. Common responsibilities of a CNA include taking and recording vital signs and assisting patients with their physical needs. CNAs may perform procedures under the supervision of a registered nurse.

To ensure the safety of all patients for whom our allied health students provide care, all allied health students over the age of 18 will be required to complete the criminal background check. If a student is found guilty of any felony crime against a person, the student must meet with the appropriate program director to determine the student’s ability to participate in clinical placement. Students who are unable to complete the clinical component of their respective program will be withdrawn from the program.

The following list of felony crimes against persons will prevent clinical placement for any allied health student:

• Murder in the first degree
• International second-degree murder
• Capital murder
• Domestic battery
• Murder in the first degree
• Aggravated kidnapping
• Murder in the first degree; Conspiracy
• Murder in the second degree (reckless)
• Murder in the first degree; Solicitation
• Voluntary manslaughter
• Kidnapping
• Aggravated robbery
• Aggravated battery on LEO-intentional, great bodily harm
• Injury to a pregnant woman in the commission of a felony
• Aggravated battery – intentional, great bodily harm
• Injury to a pregnant woman in commission of K.S.A. 21-342 (aggravated assault), K.S.A. 21-3413 (a)(1), battery or K.S.A. 21-3517, sexual battery
• Involuntary manslaughter
• Robbery
• Aggravated battery – reckless, great bodily harm
• Aggravated assault on law enforcement officer
• Mistreatment of a dependent adult – physical
• Aggravated assault
• Aggravated interference with parental custody
• Blackmail
• Battery against a correctional officer, youth center office, juvenile detention office or city/county correctional officer/employee
• Aggravated battery – intentional, bodily harm
• Aggravated battery – intentional, physical contact
• Stalking when the offender has a previous conviction within 7 years for stalking the same victim
• Aggravated battery – reckless, bodily harm
• Assisting suicide
• Criminal threat
• Stalking in all other cases
• Interference with parental custody in all other cases