Developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives in Ohio, this document is a comprehensive and verified employer competency profile for nurses' aides. The list contains units (with and without subunits), competencies, and competency builders that identify the skills needed to enter this occupation. The occupational, academic, and employability skills for this occupation are included. Within the outline are three levels of items: core, advancing, and futuring. Core items identify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential for entry-level employment. These items are required to be taught and will be the basis for questions on the state vocational competency tests. Advancing items identify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to advance in the occupation; futuring items identify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to enter and remain in a given occupation 3 to 4 years from now. This profile contains 10 units: orientation; first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); safety and infection control; effective communication and legal and ethical responsibilities; basic personal care; nursing-related procedures; care of elderly clients; home health care; restorative duties; and employability skills. (NLA)