subject: CNA Certification to Evaluate Your Skills [print this page] Certified Nursing assistants are these people, who offer compassionate care to ailing patients. In order to get certified they will have to complete 75-150 hours, respective state and federally approved Nursing Training Programs of classroom learning and clinical trainings. The completion of training will make them eligible to appear for the competency evaluation test. The test evaluates the skills of nursing aide for actual nursing of the suffering patients and their knowledge about patient cares.
The certification also get them listed with specific state Nurse Aide Registry, facilitating them to work legally in hospitals and different other health clinics. Their main duties during caring of the patients are count pulses, measure heart beats and temperature, change bed linen, assist patients in movements in walking, wheelchair and stretcher, clean room, report everyday condition of the patient to Licensed nurse, make nurse care plan, increase moral of patient and their family members and so on.
CNA works under the direct supervision of LPN and is an important member of a medical team in a hospital or health center.
