This manual, an outgrowth of a pilot project (at De Anza College in California) which provided college education for nursing assistants to replace on-the-job training, presents: (1) a description of the pilot project (philosophy and purpose, history and background, value, problem areas, and recommendations), (2) process for implementing a nursing assistant program in a community college (administrative, instructor, and student responsibilities), (3) development of the curriculum of a nursing assistant program (goals and setting of the program, characteristics of students, content organization and implementation, and evaluation), and (4) a graphic summary of the nursing assistant program. Appendices include a course description and implementation guidelines for a specific nursing assistant course, a module time-table, pretests, instructional materials lists, a sample certificate of (program) completion, an evaluation questionnaire, statistics of the Nursing Assistant Course--Pilot Year, 1973-74, and a nursing assistant course syllabus. (SH)