Continuing Education
Please check back frequently as new classes are constantly being added!
Current Classes Offered:
Certified Nurse Aid (CNA) Short Term Credential

Cost: $1,343.00*
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS REQUIREMENTS
• Communicate effectively with clients, families, health care team members, peers, and faculty.
• Stand and walk for six to eight hours/day.
• Bend, squat, and kneel.
• Assist lifting or moving clients and with use of appropriate mobility devices.
• Perform CPR, i.e., move client to compress chest and manually ventilate client.
• Work with arms fully extended overhead.
• Use hands for grasping, pushing, pulling, and other fine manipulation.
• Demonstrate eye/hand coordination for manipulation of equipment, procedural supplies, etc.
• Possess tactile ability to differentiate changes in sensation.
• Possess auditory acuity to hear normal voice and hear manual blood pressure.
• Possess auditory acuity to hear client’s calls for assistance without facing the client.
• Possess auditory acuity to interpret various equipment signals and use the telephone.
• Possess visual acuity to read and distinguish colors, to read handwritten /printed data.
• Possess visual acuity to clearly view electronic monitors and scales to correctly interpret data.
Nurse aides help provide basic care for patients in hospitals and residents of long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and private residences. They are frequently active and may need to help lift or move patients
*Cost includes planner, background check, scrub, blood pressure cuff, transfer belt and class cost. CNA is NOT financial aid eligible.
INTERESTED IN CNA?
Select the following on the application:
Admit Type: Community Guest
Program: Upgrade job skills
Contact Us
Stephanie Briggs: Stephanie.Briggs@muskegoncc.edu – 231.777.0345
Nia Miskel: Nia.Miskel@muskegoncc.edu – 231.777.0375
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College Singers – Winter 2026
This is a performance ensemble for students or community members with previous musical experience. Auditions will be held at the first-class session for placement within the group and to verify that the student/community member and ensemble are a reasonable match. High standards of musical performance are upheld. There are performances held throughout the year for student and adult audiences.

FEE $25
M/W 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Dates 1.13.2025 – 4.28.2025
MAIN CAMPUS ART & MUSIC BUILDING – ROOM 1200
INSTRUCTOR/DIRECTOR – NICHOLAS PALMER
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTRATION DEADLINE – 1.20.2026
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Contact
For more information about Continuing Education at MCC, please contact:
Associate Dean of Workforce & Talent Development
Sturrus Technology Center
Phone: 231-777-0456
Workforce Program Coordinator
Muskegon Community College
120A
Phone: 231-777-0375
Email: nia.miskel@muskegoncc.edu