background check?

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I'm currently in 10th grade in high school, im goin to vo tech for health and medical assisting, i would be able to become a cna by the time i graduate..the only thing is to get certified i have to have a background check. I have gotten in trouble for possesion of alcohol and consuption when i was 14 and i had to go to the hospital. i then also got in trouble for alcohol again when i was 15 during school, i was in trouble for possesion and consuption once again. Will this effect me getting my cna? or anything else in the medical field?

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I think your records are sealed at 18 unless you were tried as an adult. But I would check with a lawyer. Not to be harsh but im sure you know now that if you do want to be successful in this field you have to buck up and make better life choices. Getting in trouble will get you no where but in more trouble. If it doesn't now it will affect you in the future.

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Yeah i know. I was only 14.

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Specializes in Home Health (PDN), Camp Nursing.

Spend $10 and find out. You can run a check on yourself using the PSP website. https://epatch.state.pa.us/Home.jsp

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