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  1. Did working in group homes require CNA certificate?
  2. Here is an example of someone who was a CNA and worked in a home health company as a overnight companion. Does working as overnight companion count as utilizing your CNA cert? Do you not have to renew the cert for not utilizing it? Are there over...
  3. Exactly how long a time do you have to not use your certification for it to lapse? If you become a home health aide instead of CNA, does that count as not using your certification? Does HHA certification lapse the same way?
  4. Do you have to take the one month long course again if you end up not using the certificate for a long time? How long? Or do you have to just take the test? And how much does the test cost?
  5. Which shift are you working? Are you a CNA?
  6. What does it mean to be in the float pool?
  7. To get overnight companion jobs, is CNA certification redundant? Or would it help your chances of getting the job over those who don't have any certificate?
  8. How much downtime do you have on average?
  9. For those of you who have the midnight shift, how much of it is downtime? 7 out of 10 hours? 9 out of 10 hours? Or not much at all, like 3 out of 10 hours?
  10. What measures could one take to makes sure that one gets a job where most of the shift is downtime? Are there certain type of places one might look for that usually have mostly downtime for the overnight shifts? Should you call around home health ag...
  11. Did it require you to have a cert to be an aide? How often do you get floated to sit? What does floated mean?
  12. Does CNA have not very much free time even during the night shift, while home health aides do have plenty of free time during the night shift? So would that make getting a CNA certificate not worth it and one should get HHA degree if given the choice...
  13. Thank you. If you move to a different state, can you still be certified the same and is it not hard to transfer over state your CNA certification?
  14. I've read about a job where you come in at 10pm for Alzheimer patient and and help him redirect him to bed or call staff to help him a few times if he ever tried to get up. So basically almost no work was involved. How do you get this kind of shift. ...