Nurse Aide Training (NAT) / Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for Clinical Compliance
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Nurse Aide/Certified Nursing Assistant Training Requirement
As part of clinical compliance, all students entering pre-licensure programs at the University of Louisville will be required to successfully complete training as a nursing assistant/nurse aide.
Completion of training is a clinical compliance requirement. Documentation must be submitted to the Office of Student Services by the established compliance due date.
Four Ways to Meet the Clinical Compliance Requirement:
- Successful completion of NURS 221: Principles of Basic Patient Care with a C or higher.
- Submission of documentation of 100 hours of direct health patient care work experience within the past 12 months OR 1000 hours of employment within 10 years of upper division clinical compliance deadline. If you are currently working in health care, do not assume your work assistance will meet this requirement. Please check the NAT FAQs below. Submit Work Validation Form (see form submission instructions | access work validation form). For questions or issues regarding this process, please email nursingclincomp@louisville.edu.
- Documentation of completion of a Medicaid approved State Registered Nursing Aide (SRNA) Program. Students are not required to take the SRNA certificate exam.
- Active certification as a State Registered Nursing Aide (SNRA). Students meeting this requirement must submit proof of SNRA certification from the Nurse Aide Registry.
- Documentation of completion of Patient Care Technician (PCT) training at a Kentucky high school healthcare academy.
NAT Skills Competencies List
Skills Validation Process and Expectation
Below is a partial list of skills that are taught in Medicaid-approved CNA programs. Students will be asked to demonstrate competencies during the Pre-Immersion Program (PIP) from the skills list below.
Mandatory skills:
- Hand Hygiene
- Provide for environmental safety
- Report unsafe conditions to appropriate person
- Vital signs
- Introducing and communicating with patients
- Donning/Doffing PPE
Potential skills (random assignment of two skills):
- Complete Bed Bath
- Occupied Bed Making
- Male or Female Pericare
- Ambulation with Gait Belt
- Assist with Oxygen Delivery
- Assist with Bedpan
- Assist with Urinal
- Apply Elastic Stockings
- Range of Motion
NAT Training FAQs
If you have ever completed a CNA course, this will fulfill the CNA requirement for admission. You may find it helpful to refresh on your skills on your own, but you do not need to retake the course.
Examples of training verification include a program completion certificate, a college transcript listing the completed course, or state registry verification.
In order for employment to fulfill this requirement, you must have experience as a nursing assistant, providing direct patient care. This must provide opportunities to perform personal care, including bathing, toileting, feeding, linen changes, and ambulating. Employment as a medical assistant, laboratory assistant, unit secretary, OR tech, or EMT will not fulfill the CNA requirement.
You must have documentation of CNA training or work as a nursing assistant for at least 100 hours in the past 12 months OR 1000 hours within the last 10 years to fulfill the requirement.
These situations will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. In order to be considered, you must submit a complete job description of the position, as well as a list of duties. The duties must include the skills included on the NAT skills competencies list below.
University of Louisville School of Nursing Skills Validation Process and Expectation
Below is a partial list of skills that are taught in Medicaid-approved CNA programs. Students will be asked to demonstrate competencies during the Pre-Immersion Program (PIP) from the skills list below.
Mandatory skills:
- Hand Hygiene
- Provide for environmental safety
- Report unsafe conditions to appropriate person
- Vital signs
- Introducing and communicating with patients
- Donning/Doffing PPE
Potential skills (random assignment of two skills):
- Complete Bed Bath
- Occupied Bed Making
- Male or Female Pericare
- Ambulation with Gait Belt
- Assist with Oxygen Delivery
- Assist with Bedpan
- Assist with Urinal
- Apply Elastic Stockings
- Range of Motion
Possibly. If the individual's MOS was 68W, this will fulfill the requirement. Documentation of the MOS would need to be provided. For other cases, you will need to supply documentation of your training and seek individual approval.
If you have completed a fundamental skills course in which there were opportunities to perform direct patient care, you will not need to complete a CNA course. You will need to submit a copy of the transcript and course syllabus for approval.
Yes. You can complete your training at any agency of your choice. Please ensure that the program qualifies you to sit for the state examination in the state in which it is offered. You do not need to complete the state examination, but the qualification to sit indicates a program fulfills the CNA requirement.
You can take the training at any time, but the program must be completed prior to the published compliance deadline for your admission cohort.
This is at your discretion, however, students are advised to give themselves plenty of time to complete the training prior to the start of Upper Division classes. If you have not completed your training prior to the start of classes, you will not be permitted to begin Upper Division and you will forfeit your spot.
It is advisable that you complete your training if you are on the alternate list. In some cases, we will notify alternates of an available space a few days prior to classes starting. An alternate without their CNA training would not be able to accept the open spot if training could not be completed prior to the start of UD classes.
If a student can obtain verification of the appropriate hours worked, but cannot obtain verification of the skills portion of the Work Validation Form due to no longer being an employee at the facility, then the student will need to arrange for a skills validation through the School of Nursing, and demonstrate satisfactory completion of required NAT skills.