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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Certification Guidelines

Sloan Hudson |career cluster consultant| spring 2017

What is the Certified

Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Certification?

Job Duties

Job duties and tasks for the Certified Nursing Assistant can include the following: Quick Search. (n.d.). Retrieved November 08, 2016, from http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=17- 3029

• answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs,
• turn or reposition bedridden patients,
• provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising,
• review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet,
• measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, and reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.

Alignment to Nursing Services Pathway

Entrance into Nursing Services Pathway

 The CNA credential allows students to enter the

health care field as a certified health care provider

and is required, by law, for all nursing assistant

practitioners in Tennessee.

Importance of a Pathway

 Industry certifications must be tied to a student’s program of study and serve either as a complement or capstone to a student’s learning experience.  Stand-alone certifications with no ties to a student’s learning experience place the student in jeopardy of being unprepared not only to sit for the certification but also to apply the content moving forward in a career path.

Employment

Outlook

Employment Outlook

The table below shows the employment outlook for CNAs in Tennessee through

***The Certified Nursing Assistant certification is industry valued and recognized leading to high quality employability that translates into job opportunities.

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Jobs4TN Online. (2016). Employment Wage and Data. Retrieved from https://www.jobs4tn.gov

CNA Certification

Teacher Requirements

If a course is taught so students can obtain Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification, the following guidelines must be followed.

• The course must be taught by a Registered Nurse with at least two years of experience. One year must be in long-term (nursing home) care experience.
• If the teacher does not have one year of long-term care experience, the district/school must contract with a coordinator from a local long-term care facility.
• The high school program must register and receive approval from the TN Department of Health, Nurse Aide Training division for its training program, 30 days BEFORE the first day of class.

Standards

The Nursing Services program of study, which includes the Nursing Education course, prepares students to sit for the C.N.A. certification exam. The standards can be found at https://www.tn.gov/assets/entities/ed ucation/attachments/cte_std_nursing _education.pdf

Certified Nursing Assistant Certification

In order to be certified and on the Tennessee Nurse Aide Registry, an individual must have completed an approved nurse aide training program and sit for the state competency examination within 24 months from completion of the class.

Testing Company

Kelly Buerger & Sheri Butterbaugh, Program Managers 333 Oakland Ave. Findlay, OH 45840 Phone: (877) 201 - 0758, Fax: (419) 422- 8367 hdmastereast@hdmaster.com

Testing Company, continued:

D&S Diversified will send a welcome packet with the following information:

• how to create your roster,
• how to help students register for a test,
• how to obtain candidate booklets,
• breakdown of test questions,
• test fees, and
• contact information.