Nursing Assistant Training Institute

The school is authorized by the president of the Normandy Regional Council to welcome a class of 130 students + 10 places reserved for students on an apprenticeship contract, who can follow the training in full and partial courses. It is headed by a director, approved by the president of the Normandy Region . It is responsible for the approvals and operating authorization of the school.

IFAS is attached to the Caen Normandy University Hospital which has care, research and teaching missions. He is subject to dual supervision:

• the Ministry of Health, through the DREETS (Regional Directorate of the Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity) and the ARS   (Regional Health Agency) ,
• the Regional Council (since July 2005) .

AFNOR certifies that the CAEN University Hospital Center has been judged to comply with the requirements for carrying out training activities.

Certificate No. 2022/98983.1

Order of June 10, 2021 relating to training leading to the state nursing assistant diploma and containing various provisions relating to the operating methods of paramedical training institutes.

Order of June 10, 2021 laying down provisions relating to the authorization of paramedical training institutes and schools and the approval of their directors in application of articles R. 4383-2 and R. 4383-4 of the public health code

Order of April 12, 2021 relating to various modifications relating to the conditions of access to training leading to state nursing assistant and childcare assistant diplomas

Order of April 21, 2007 relating to the operating conditions of paramedical training institutes

The Order of June 10, 2021 relating to training leading to the State nursing assistant diploma and containing various provisions relating to the operating methods of paramedical training institutes has prompted new in-depth reflection on the strategic challenges of training and represented an opportunity for our IFAS in the same way as the various regulatory changes concerning the organization of health.

IFAS is moving towards several axes:

• Initial and partial training:
  • Welcome, accompaniment, follow-up of each student;
  • Development, implementation and evaluation of the educational project;
  • Organization and management of theoretical education and clinical training;
  • Responsibility for the evaluation, validation and certification system;
  • Adaptation to the regulatory framework for tuition exemptions (organization of additional personalized courses) .
• Responsibility for the selection tests;
• Support for research and document management;
• Promotion of training and professions;
• Seeking continuous improvement in the quality of the training provided and inclusion in a quality assurance process;
• Participation of students in institute projects, active representation in bodies...
• Development of cooperation actions with health establishments, networks and other training structures.

RNCP sheet 

The training must enable the student to acquire the 11 skills linked to the activity framework:

1. Accompany people in the essential acts of daily life and social life, personalize this accompaniment based on the evaluation of their personal and contextual situation and make the necessary readjustments;
2. Identify risky situations when accompanying the person, implement appropriate preventive actions and evaluate them;
3. Evaluate the clinical state of a person at any age of life to adapt their care;
4. Implement care adapted to the clinical condition of the person;
5. Accompany the person in his installation and his movements by mobilizing his resources and using preventive techniques of mobilization;
6. Establish appropriate communication to inform and support the person and those around them;
7. Inform and train peers, trainees and other professionals;
8. Use appropriate maintenance techniques for premises and equipment, taking into account the prevention of associated risks;
9. Identify and deal with anomalies and malfunctions related to the maintenance of premises and equipment related to care activities;
10. Research, process and transmit, regardless of the tool and communication methods, the relevant data to ensure the continuity and traceability of care and activities;
11. Organize one's activity, cooperate within a multi-professional team and improve one's practice within the framework of a quality/risk management approach.

With regard to the law of February 11, 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of people with disabilities, the principles of non-discrimination and accessibility are applied to training.

A disability representative is in contact with all the paramedical training structures at the CAEN University Hospital. Students can contact her via the address: pfp-sec-dir@chu-caen.fr

Vigilant point:

There is no obligation for the student to communicate their disability situation to their training structure, either at the time of the competition or during the course of study.

The disability situation of a candidate or student is confidential, even if it may be a secret shared between professionals in the training structure.

Training has an educational cost.
It is necessary to anticipate the financing arrangements for your training and your resources. Financing for the training year depends on your situation the day before you start training. To be able to benefit from funding from the Region as a job seeker, proof of registration with France Travail must be provided.
If you followed a diploma or certification training course financed by the Region less than 10 months ago (e.g. professional ADVF title), you will not be able to benefit from funding for your nursing assistant training. This rule does not apply to people continuing their education.

Funding from the region

Students continuing their education, or who have been out of the school system for less than 9 months, can obtain a scholarship awarded by the Region.
This is granted according to the resources of year N-2 (either parents, spouse, or personal resources). The request is made after confirmation of entry into training on the CROUS de Normandie website under the “paramedical and social scholarships” tab (http://www.crous-normandie.fr/).
For more information, you can consult the Normandy Region’s “ job path ” website under the “training for health and social care professions” section.

Each year we have 10 places for apprenticeship contracts.

Any candidate wishing to complete training under an apprenticeship contract must first contact the CFA PSS (Apprentice Training Center · Health and Social Professions) in Normandy.

• 22-week theoretical training
• 22-week clinical training
• Annual leave , up to 3 weeks, is also planned, the dates of which are determined by the school management.

Educational project

Several courses are followed in partial alternation. Indeed, training unit exemptions are granted to holders of the following diplomas:
1° The State diploma of childcare assistant;
2° The diploma of medical regulation assistant;
3° The state ambulance diploma;
4° The professional baccalaureate Services to people and territories (SAPAT);
5° The professional baccalaureate in Accompaniment, care and personal services (ASSP);
6° The diplomas or certificates mentioned in Articles D. 451-88 and D. 451-92 of the Social Action and Family Code;
7° The professional title of family life assistant;
or post-VAE service agent

Table of exemptions

24-25 alternation training

Start : September of year N

End : July of year N+1

Develop your skills through simulation

As part of the training framework, the use of active teaching methods, such as health simulation, is recommended. The IFAS of Caen University Hospital wanted to develop this method based on reflexivity and the ethical principle “never the first time on a patient ” [1] . This involves acquiring skills, procedures, knowledge or developing cooperation between several actors (multi-professionality). The error is not punished but shared and analyzed, thus becoming a lever for professional reflection and learning.

Based on the simulation typology we propose the following scenarios:

• Written simulations based on concrete cases or scenarios supporting discussions and reflections around the care of a patient in a given situation;
• Simulations on basic mannequins (low fidelity) allowing training in professional gestures (ergonomics, gestures and emergency care, etc.);
• Standardized patients: these are simulated patients or role-playing games allowing caregiver-patient interaction. This involves developing technical relational skills in scripted situations (welcome interviews, crisis situation management, etc.);
• Simulation with medium fidelity mannequin: the objective is to put learners in a progressive situation, to mobilize their knowledge and to acquire skills.

To carry out these sessions, we have 7 practical work rooms equipped with low and medium fidelity mannequins as well as a simulation room allowing recording and live broadcast in the debriefing room.

[1] GRANRY JC, MOLL MC, 2012, Mission report of the High Authority of Health

The training is provided by trainers, State Qualified Nurses, who have varied professional experience and university qualifications: University Diplomas, Licenses, Masters, etc.

Support for learners is based on three intervention methods :

• Individualized Educational Support (API): 35 hours (in the first three months of training)

Provide targeted educational support taking into account the diversity of profiles and new methods of access to training.

• Individualized educational monitoring of learners: 7 hours (distributed throughout the training):

Educational monitoring is addressed individually and collectively (7 hours per student). It is defined as support for the student, by a representative from the teaching team.

The interviews, which aim to monitor progress, are conducted based on the results of theoretical and clinical evaluations; assessments of skills developed during internships; internship reports; of the various works carried out.

• Guided personal work (TPG): 35 hours (distributed among the different modules):

Which aims to support personal work: preparatory work before contributions, revision time, etc.

The validation of the training is based on a continuous evaluation system.

For each of the blocks, a first assessment test is organized followed by a second session, called a catch-up session, for candidates who did not pass the first.

Assessment methods: Individual or collective

Online homework submissions, table assignments, oral presentations (in groups or individually) of work, simulated situations, analysis of clinical situations.

The Nursing Assistant school is part of a training center which includes:

• initial training : nurse, paramedic, nursing assistant, medical electroradiology technician
• specialty training : operating room nurse, childcare worker
• the training of health managers
• medical training : medicine, pharmacy, maieutics, speech therapy

The grouping of these training courses on a single site makes it possible to develop shared and innovative educational activities: lessons and multi-professional internships.

The building is accessible to people with disabilities. A disability adviser is in contact with all the training structures. The students concerned can contact her via the school secretariat.

There are 4 clinical internships, privileged learning times for professional practice ( duration of 5 weeks for the first 3 chosen by the teaching team, and 7 weeks for the last internship called "professional project" ; 770 hours ).

For an internship to be validated, the effective attendance time of the student must be at least 80%. Over the entire clinical training course of the student, absences cannot exceed 10% of the total duration of the internships.

They are carried out in the hospital or extra-hospital sector, in health, social or medico-social establishments and necessarily in each of the following structures:

• Care service for people with physical or mental disabilities;
• Elderly care service.

Students have the opportunity to benefit from a variety of internship sites at the CHU or in other establishments in Calvados:

• University Hospital including medical, surgical, elderly, paediatrics, psychiatric and high-tech services;
• Psychiatric and Mental Health establishments, in hospitals or in external reception structures;
• Private establishments;
• Regional Center for the Fight against Cancer (François Baclesse Center);
• Aftercare and Rehabilitation Establishments;
• Accommodation Establishments for Dependent Elderly Persons;
• Home care centers, home care for the elderly and hospitalization at home;
• Others…

At the end of the 44 weeks of training, the file is presented to the jury for awarding the State nursing assistant diploma appointed by the Regional Prefect and organized by the DREETS .

The diploma (Level 4) is issued subject to validation of all the blocks of skills acquired in theoretical, practical and professional training. Access to certification is only open to students who have not accumulated more than five percent of justified absence, not made up, over the whole of the training.

The caregiver can apply for nursing training (via Parcoursup or Continuing Personal Training), childcare assistant, ambulance driver, Gerontology Care Assistant (GSA), Pharmacy Trainer, etc.

For access to the DEI, this was reformed by a decree of July 3, 2023 for ASs with AS professional experience of at least 3 years full-time in varied working conditions.

Mandatory online pre-registration :

-Candidat presenting the selection test -General provisions:

To re -register and download the information instructions and the application file, go to the site:

https://myselect-normandie-as.epsilon-informatique.net/g/groupement-normandie-as

> After validation of your pre-registration, click on “Download the summary certificate” and “Download the instructions for your institute” (notice of your institute = selection folder). Please note: you must send the "paper" file to the institute of your choice n ° 1!

Application file:

You must file a unique registration file in IFAS where you wish to follow your training (choice n ° 1).

The file is to be provided complete and preferably not stapled on June 24, 2025 - midnight (mail of the postal post):

By mail :

Institute for training aids ( IFAS ) -CHU de Caen-CS 30001-14033 Caen Cedex 9

OR

Deposit :

-Secretariat of IFAS , P ôle des Fremations and de R Echerche en S Anté ( PFRS ) -2 rue des Rochambelles in Caen-4th ^floor of the PFRS -PS4-056 office;

- At the reception of the PFRS and/or in the mailbox located to the left of the entrance to the PFRS (under envelope addressed to IFAS ) .

Please note: there will be no telephone receipt telephone response.

Any file received or submitted outside the deadline will be not admissible, as well as the incomplete files.

The candidates whose file is admissible (complete and submitted within the time limits) will be summoned for a selection interview which will take place from June 16 to 20 and July 1.

• Opening and publication of the specific registration file : May 14, 2025
• Closing of inscriptions : 20/06/2025
  
• Display of results : 24/06/2025
  

Admission conditions of ASHQ candidates / Service agents with selection exemption:

Are given from the selection test only:

• The ASHQs of the hospital public service, or service agents of health and medico-social establishments in the private sector, justifying a seniority of cumulative services of at least 1 year in full-time equivalent ;
• The ASHQs of the hospital public service or service agents of health and medico-social establishments in the private sector justifying the modular ASHQ continuous training of 70 hours , and a seniority of 6-month-old cumulative services in full-time equivalent.

A minimum of 20 % of places is reserved for agents falling under continuing vocational training.

The candidates will be directly admitted to the decision -making training of the director of IFAS, and according to the places available upon receipt of their file. Places not provided at the end of the selection will be reassigned to other candidates.

Registration:

• ASHQ and service agents with employer : The employer must contact us by email at the following address: ifas-sec@chu-caen.fr , in order to offer you admission to Ifas . The registration file to be formed will then be sent to it.

ASHQ file with employer

• ASHQ and service agents without employer : The candidate will send his request by mail to Ifas accompanied by his full registration file. As a reminder, it is necessary to anticipate the methods of financing your training and your resources.

ASHQ file without employer

The file must be returned to us complete before June 20, 2025 .

The national expectations and criteria are as follows:

• Interest in the field of support and assistance to people, particularly in situations of vulnerability: knowledge in the health, medico-social, social or societal field;
• Human qualities and interpersonal skills: ability to show attention to others, listening and open-mindedness; ability to relate to a person and to communicate; ability to collaborate and work in a team;
• Skills in written and oral expression: mastery of French and written and oral language, practice of digital tools;
• Analytical skills and mastery of the basics of arithmetic: ability to develop logical reasoning based on reliable knowledge and research, mastery of the basics of calculation and units of measurement;
• Organizational skills: skills of observation, organization, prioritization of activities, autonomy in work.

Admission on file and interview*

The selection for admission to a nursing assistant training institute is made on the basis of a file and an interview intended to assess the candidate's knowledge, skills and motivation. The training is accessible without condition of diploma .

Candidates must be at least 17 years on the date of entry into training.

Applicants from outside the EU must hold a valid residence permit to participate in the selection.

* Order of April 7, 2020 relating to the procedures for admission to training leading to the State diplomas of nursing assistant and childcare assistant: Order Légifrance.gouv.fr

*Order of 12 April 2021 carrying various modifications relating to the conditions of access to training leading to the State diplomas of nursing assistant and childcare assistant:  Order Légifrance.gouv.fr

IMPORTANT :

Applicants must ensure that their attending physician is up to date with their vaccinations for the start of the school year .

Compulsory vaccinations : hepatitis B / diphtheria, tetanus and polio (DTP )

Please note: vaccination against hepatitis B requires 3 doses over 6 months, with serological control approximately 4 weeks after the last injection to check the immunization. However, an accelerated vaccine scheme can be set up with your doctor.

-The result of the serology blood test must be as follows: anti-HBS AC (>) at 10. Otherwise you will have to continue vaccination up to immunization within the limit of 6 doses at the end of which your doctor may, if necessary, declare non-responder/SE to vaccination if you are not still immune.

• In any case, you will have to present at the latest the day of the start of the school year , a medical certificate of aptitude established by a doctor approved by ARS attesting that you do not present any physical and/or psychological contraindication to the exercise of the profession.
• You will imperatively present at the latest at the end of September (= before the 1st internship) the result of the serology of hepatitis B and a medical certificate of vaccinations in accordance with the regulations in force fixing the conditions of immunization of health professionals in France.

IF YOU DO NOT MEET THIS VACCINATION OBLIGATION, ENTRY TO THE INTERNSHIP WILL BE IN QUESTION, AS WELL AS THE CONDITIONS FOR OBTAINING THE NURSERY ASSISTANCE DIPLOMA.

The training can be financed by partners such as the Regional Council for learners continuing their education and job seekers, by OPCOs such as Transitions Pro, ANFH... or your employer for employees, by self-financing...
Before entering health or social training institute in Normandy, you must make sure of the method of financing your training and your resources for the duration of your training ( Job career sheet ).

• Educational cost 2023-2024: €5,500, not subject to VAT.
• Educational cost 2024-2025: €5,500, not subject to VAT.

You can also benefit from scholarships. Scholarship files are managed by the Crous de Normandie and the scholarships granted according to your financial situation: