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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
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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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Certified Nursing Assistant
The CNA or certified nursing assistant is the person who assists the patients suffering from the physical disabilities to carry out their daily routine activities. The CNAs provide the health care services to the needy people under the supervision of registered nurses (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). CNAs are also known as Nursing Assistant (NA) or Patient Care Assistant (PCA). The person who wants to work as a CNA should be qualified and possess the CNA certification for working as a CNA professional. There are number of institutes and training centers providing CNA training.

The job of nursing assistant is of great responsibility. The nursing assistants work in nursing homes, adult day care centers, hospitals, personal homes, etc. They work for providing the health care facilities to the patients and assist them in their daily routing activities. In many cases, the nursing assistants serve as the medium between registered nurses or licensed practical nurses.

CNAs provide basic needs for the patients of all ages, ethnicity or gender. They work under the supervision of the licensed and highly experienced nurses. As these nursing assistants have daily contact with the patients, they play the major role in providing the key information about the patient’s health to the supervisors. The work of a CNA can sometimes become difficult with the increasing workloads but many CNA professionals consider it as a rewarding experience.

For the person to work as a CNA professional, he has to pass the certification examination. There are various schools that provide the CNA training and conduct the classes on this syllabus. Some of the local hospitals and community colleges also offer CNA training for free. The duration of these courses generally lasts for about 2 to 6 weeks. The Red Cross foundation conducts 6 months of completed training for CNA certification.

What Is Taught In A CNA Course?

Nursing assistants have to perform number of activities like cleaning the patient, checking their basic health, feeding them, keeping track of their medicines, bathing, changing their bedpans, etc. All these activities are taught during the training period. Everything from the basic anatomy to the proper ethnical manners, non-medical patient care and keeping safe from infections is taught in these CNA training. The trainings are generally conducted to equip the nursing assistant to face the emergency situations. The trainer should provide training to students to both theoretically and practically.

The theory part of the certification includes study of various medical instruments. The students are taught to clean and bath the patients without hurting them physically and mentally.

In the practical training, the students are actually sent to the hospitals to serve the patients. This enables them to work on their skills learnt in the theory section.

It is the responsibility of the training schools to equip the students with all the information related to the CNA training and certification before they appear in the exam.