This task analysis for nursing education provides performance standards, steps to be followed, knowledge required, attitudes to be developed, safety procedures, and equipment and supplies needed for 13 tasks performed by nurse assistants in the duty area of performing diagnostic measures, and for 30 tasks in the duty area of providing therapeutic measures. Two tasks in the diagnostic measures duty area pertain to testing a patient's mental awareness and examining an infant; the other 11 include various aspects of urine and stool sample testing. Tasks in the therapeutic duty area cover many different medical procedures. For each task are listed the performance standard, steps, knowledge, attitudes, safety, equipment and supplies, the source of the task analysis (from the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States Catalog), and the Illinois State Goals for Learning. (KC)