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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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Certified nursing assistant or nurses are in great demand in hospitals and clinics. Nurses in the hospitals and clinics work in assisting the doctors and providing the medical care facilities to patients. They are also responsible for assisting the patients in their daily activities and keeping record of their health and medicines. There are many institutes providing training for CNA certification. For working as a professional CNA, you will have to pass the CNA practice test.

The job of nurse requires patience and tolerance. If you are thinking that the job of the nurse is to spend all time sitting near the patient and caring for his health, you are completely wrong. Most of the times you will have to sit looking at watch. The article discusses some essentials that are necessary for working as the nursing assistant or the nurse.

Qualities Necessary for becoming Nurse:

Ability to Handle Stress

Working as a nurse, you may face some stressed situation in future. If you are not mentally prepared for facing such situations, you may suffer from depression or even some illnesses. Most people in hospitals don’t sleep at night. Patients experience pain in their body during the night hours. The patients call the nurses often to help them. They have to rush to help patients any time. Sometimes there are emergency situations when more number of people needs to be treated at a time. At this time it is your responsibility to make sure that they remain safe through your shift.

Time Management

Time management is another important factor that should be considered if you are thinking of becoming a nurse or a nursing assistant. Working as a nurse, you will have to take care of number of patients at a time and look after their health check-ups and medicines from time to time. It is important to provide medicines to every patient on time. You should assist the entire patient in medicines at their prescribed time.

There are various other health related tests that should be performed exactly after specific period of time. You should keep the record of all such tests and take proper care to complete these tests.

Sense of Humor

You must have good sense of humor to keep the patients laughing. Visiting the patients with a smile on face will generate a sense of good feeling in them. Good communication with patients will not leave them feeling alone and awkward. The good working environment will depend on you and the people around you.

Confidence

Show the confidence in yourself. The nurses those are not confident of what they are doing are headache for doctors. Try to learn new things. Some of the doctors are just jerks and they enjoy making others down. The only thing that will save you is your confidence. Don’t let them intimidate you or it will make the situation more complex. Present yourself confidently to the doctors.  

If you possess all these basic qualities, you are liable for working as a nurse. Now, as you know how to become a nurse assistant, you can look forward to this field as a new career opportunity.