CNA certification--NY

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I just finished my first semester of nursing school & heard that if you completed a semester of fundamentals that you could be eligible to sit for the CNA exam. So, I went on the NY state dept of health website & checked the different routes/req & didn't see anything that related to nursing students who completed their first semester. So, basically I don't know if this is true or not. If anyone has any info in regards to this or who have sat for the exam after completeing yoru 1st semester of NS let me know.

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Specializes in Med-Surg /Cardiac Step-Down/CICU/CTICU.

hey

i don't think you can be certified to work as a "certified" nursing assistant. but you can work as a PCA a patient care assistant in most hospitals. i'm not sure about long term care and if they would hire you because, mostly you need a certification to work in that type of setting. hope that it helps ;)

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

It may be better to ask your nursing program if they can arrange this. Keep in mind that you may have a skills performance test, and you are not able to take the written until you pass the skills. Maybe there is an exception for nursing students, but am not sure.

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:idea:after your first semester you are eligible to sit for your state boards for nsg asst, yes it is true, at least it was 3 yrs ago when I was in school.

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Hello,

Would you happen to know how I can find this information out in regards to taking boards for a nsg asst?? I am too in the same situation and want to be certified if possible since I completed my 1st semester.

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