CNA proficiency test

"Proficiency test?" Are you referring to challenging the state exam so that you can work as a CNA? If so, your board of nursing's website would have the necessary paperwork and best information regarding that.

Different facilities will have different policy's but you can call where you want to work and see if they have more information on what you should do. I know at our hospital up here in FoCo if you have passed your first semester of nursing school they will hire you at a CNA position. As far as getting the actual cert though to apply many places I bet one of the facilities could tell you.

Here in MA, you can take the state test after successfully completing your first semester of NS. But you can't work as a CNA until you've taken and passed that test and obtain a license. I'm strongly considering that given that right now I have zero health care experience other than in the classroom - and I hear mixed reviews of how much this can help while going though the nursing program. I know the pay isn't that great...but I think in the short term, I can manage (but it would be a pay cut from what I'm doing right now)

In Calif, you can take the CNA test after the first semester of NS. I challenged the test to make some mone while in NS. Compared to NS and its exams, it was a piece of cake. You should have no difficulty. Check you state's requirements.