Pass CNA Exam and Earn Certification

The importance of CNA Exam can be best understood by the fact that, if you pass the exam, you will get registered with state Nurse Aide Registry. The registration also provides legal working permission in the hospitals, long term care facilities and other health care settings.

CNA Exam is also known by different names, such as Competency Evaluation Test, Certification Exam and Licensing Exam. The Exam is regulated and managed by the State Board of Nursing (BON), and administered through BON, D & S Technology, American Red Cross, Prometric and Pearson Vue.

But, it is also true that to get the eligibility to appear in the Certification Test, a student must attend and complete the state and OBRA-87 approved CNA Training Program. Though, training programs can be attended through various schools, community colleges and technical institutes, the programs offered by the American Red Cross in 36 states of America are termed as the best.

In few states, such as Hawaii, Massachusetts and Georgia, the American Red Cross is authorized to administer the required Nurse Aide Competency Evaluation Exam (NACEE) also.

Massachusetts Red Cross CNA Exam

Any student, aiming to get certified in the state of Massachusetts as a Nurse Aide, must complete MS State approved Nurse Aide Training Program and sit for the Red Cross offered NACEE.

The Nurse Aide Test has two separate parts - the Written/Oral Test and the Clinical/Skill Test.

The Written/Oral Test comprises of 60 multiple choice CNA Exam Test Questions and administered in a group setting. The time limit offered to complete the test is two hours. The students have the option to appear for either written test or oral test. The Oral Test is provided through a CD player and only ARC Regional test sites conduct the oral tests.

Clinical/Skill Test is offered individually and administered in a scenario, where candidates are asked to replicate providing care for a resident. The test administrator evaluates each skill demonstrated by the individual candidate on a live model.

Both the Written and Skill tests are independent of the each other and can be taken in the same day by the candidates. If any candidate fails in one test, he/she is still permitted to sit for another test. The candidate has to pass both tests to earn Certification.

The candidate is offered four chances to clear the written test and three chances to pass the skill test. The failure to pass the exam in the offered chances, require retaking and completing CNA Training Program once again.