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Information on Training for Certified Nursing Assistant

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CNA Training

It’s important to ask yourself a few questions to cure yourself of the dilemma about getting a Certified Nursing Assistant certification.  Is your goal in life to provide impassioned service and care to patients? Does the prospect of serving in the medical field excite you? Do you enjoy making people happy and comfortable in tough situations?  If yes, then you most definitely ought to prepare yourself to become a Certified Nursing Assistant.

 A nursing assistant job is the best way to gain entry into the healthcare profession.  It gives you immense and varied experience along with ground level understanding of the field. Completing a CNA certification will not only offer you a license but in the process, you would learn several safe practices that would benefit you as well as your patients.

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How to pass the CNA skills exam

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CNA Skills Exam
A CNA student checking blood pressure on another nursing student

The skills exam is probably the hardest part to become a Certified Nursing Assistant.    You will have 5 skills that the examiner will pick for you randomly.  Everyone will have to perform the hand washing skill.   Also, everyone will have one type of measurement, whether it be weighing a patient, measuring urine (fake of course: Water and food coloring), the dreaded blood pressure,  radial pulse,  or respiration’s.

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