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A certified nursing assistant or CNA has to take care of more than one patient in her shift, especially if she is not offering nursing care at the client's residence. Handling a large number of patients in any given shift is a tedious job. Sometimes, it drains nursing aides physically and emotionally. Therefore, it is very essential for them to have certain traits to ensure that no amount of fatigue or stress debars them from attending the duties to its extreme.

If there is even a slightest of inclination in your heart that is pushing you for the nursing profession, then get ready to know about CNA personality and training requirements.

At the first glance, it will appear that any person can do the job seeing nursing assistants. You may even get carried away looking at the neatly ironed and colorful CNA uniforms. However, what your eyes see and mind conceives is not always true.  The reality is something else. Therefore, first understand the type of duties these caregivers perform.

As a nursing assistant or a caregiver, you will provide all types of help to patients to start their day. You will need them to take to the toilet, or provide bedpan.  Help them while taking a bath, or clean them yourself by offering a sponge bath. The duties also include cleaning and dressing wounds, changing bed linens and diapers, sterilizing medical equipments, transporting patients from their beds to the necessary ward or facility.

If you get dizzy or nauseated when seeing wounds and blood, you cannot work. If you are not able to lift and move patients, or bend, pull, and stretch your body when needed, there is little you can do for the patients. These types of duties need a good temperament,  emotional and mental state, including physical strength to lift at least 75 pounds.

After standing firm and clear on the metal and physical needs in the job, the next is to decide the training requirements. Education is top on the list of requirements. Most of the states require a high school diploma or GED for registering in the CNA training program(cnatrainings.com
). Next, you will be asked to pass the entrance test to show your abilities in reading English and working with basic mathematical calculations.  

After passing the entrance test, you will have to serve the legal requirements. It is regulated by the federal and state government that all students must pass the background check before they are accepted into the course. Students having a criminal background are not allowed in the program for the safety of patients and people they will be working with. In addition, students have to prove that they are not suffering from any disease that can put people in and around in danger. To clear these requirements, students have to submit fingerprint cards and a photocopy of latest medical checkup.

Hence, to become a certified nursing assistant, your personality should be as such that it is a deterrent to all the events you will experience on the job. And to register for the training program, you must hold a qualification, clean background, and latest health checkup record.


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9/2/2012 12:13:38 am

Becoming a CNA is a great way to make certain of long term employment.

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9/3/2012 06:00:57 pm

You are a blogger and now my inspiration. I just love the blog post. Its very informative, interactive and quality content. I wish you all good luck for your coming blogs and posts. Keep sharing!

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8/9/2013 03:37:33 am

Agreed. Great blog with great content.
I've been looking for a good CNA blog.
Thank you for your hard work.

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9/14/2012 10:46:59 pm

A Certified Nursing Assistant can earn good money. It's a good career.

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10/7/2012 07:21:48 pm

kudos! A trustworthy blog, thanks for putting an effort to publish this information. very informative and does exactly what it sets out to do. thumbs up! :)

Joseph Aidan
www.arielmed.com

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10/7/2012 07:24:21 pm

kudos! A trustworthy blog, thanks for putting an effort to publish this information. very informative and does exactly what it sets out to do. thumbs up! :)

Joseph Aidan
www.arielmed.com

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10/18/2012 02:46:20 am

Becoming a CNA is great. I have had more opportunity for jobs then anything I have ever done.

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5/30/2013 02:15:55 am

I think a person's background can tell you a lot about that person. I agree that everyone wants to have a caregiver who has a good background and good attitude.

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6/2/2013 01:50:18 am

I completly agree with you on this.Certifications are a way of gauging a CNA’s skills and abilities. Being a nursing assistant is no easy job, since you will be dealing with the health of each patient.

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6/19/2013 10:13:16 am

I am very proud to be a certified nurse assistant, what we do is more than what other people could see. What we do is not just services, but giving hope to our needy clients.

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3/5/2014 06:33:37 pm

Certified Nursing Assistants typically do the following:<br /><br />

- Cleaning or bathing the patients
- Assisting patients in using toilets
- Helping patients in mobility activities
- Recording the health concerns of patients and reporting these concerns to nurses
- Measuring vital signs of patients
-Serving meal to the patients and assisting them in eating food

Pay Scale provides datum about the ‘salary range’ and ‘median salary’ of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), i.e. $17,681 - $31,144 per annum and $22,537 per annum respectively.

Ref:
http://www.educationhook.com/certified-nursing-assistant-cna/
http://askforeducation.com/online-schools/health-medicine/nursing/

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Alexa
3/6/2014 11:23:51 pm

I found this blog very helpful! I do believe it is very important to get you CNA. Now it is hard to get into majority medical programs because they require A CNA license.

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Eureka
9/18/2015 05:30:54 pm

This can be of some help. http://largearticle.com/working-as-a-certified-nursing-assistant-cna-in-san-francisco/

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