CNA proficiency test

[lavery10]

I'm in my last few months of nursing school in Denver, CO. I want to take a CNA proficiency test without taking a course. Where and how can I do this?

[CoffeemateCNA]

"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.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

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.

[semester1kid]

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)

[MeganS]

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.