What it takes to get CNA certification

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Just wondering if it is diffrent in diffrent areas.

I live in Alberta, Canada. Here we have to complete a course, pass all Skills in a lab setting, do 5 weeks of practicums and of course do a final exam. In class and in the exam you cant have anything lower then 70%

Everything is covered... You are expected to know all the basic stuff, and I mean once you go over it it is totally basic.

I am only 2 courses into my program but I can do all the most basic stuff. Bed making, feeding, toileting, mesuring input ect. I just think that someone who has the certification should have a grasp on it all.

What does it take where you are? Do you wish that new workers coming into your facility had had more education???

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I often shake my head at the lack of common sense and education I sometimes see around me.

Too many aides that are complacent and not learning anything more than what they were told the day before. Questioning nothing. Working like robots. Can't be told anything new. Have no sense of decorum. Have no interpersonal skills. Have no sense of the responsibility they hold.

It's too easy to become a CNA.

I would love to see more education and higher standards, but that is unlikely to happen.

More education + higher standards = more pay.

More pay = hospitals and nursing homes aren't going to do that = won't be worth anyone's while to all that extra work to become an aide.

Catch 22.

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Specializes in LTC.

I wish there were more educational requirements too...

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