Why Formalized CNA Training Has Turned Out to be Beneficial to Nurse Aides
Sep 22, 2010
When it was first announced that people aspiring to work as nurse aides would need formalized training, which came to be known as Certified Nursing Assistant training (abbreviated as CNA training), there was a lot of grumbling amongst the affect nursing assistants. Many felt that the introduction of such formalized CNA training was, in effect, the introduction of unnecessary demands in their work field, which had previously been virtually a ‘free-for-all’ field.
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With the wisdom of hindsight, many are coming to realize that this requirement for formalized CNA training for all people aspiring to work as nurse aids was actually a blessing in disguise for all of them.
For one, the introduction of that requirement for formalized CNA training has, effectively, created a ‘barrier to entry’ of too many people into the ranks of nursing assistants. In other words, it is no longer a free-for-all field. What this has meant, in practical terms, is that there are fewer people competing for the nursing assistant jobs. That leads to a situation where hospitals actually have to scramble for the few certified nursing assistants available, which has the net effect of driving the salaries for the CNAs higher than they would be if it was a free-for-all field.
Introduction of formalized CNA training has also translated to greater transferability of skills, meaning that CNAs are no longer bound for life to the hospitals they first work at. As things were, before the advent of formalized CNA training, each and every medical facility used to run its own training/instructional program for its nursing assistants. The problem with that training approach would be in that the skills obtained that way wouldn’t be recognizable in other medical facilities one would search for work later. But with formalized CNA training, the qualification you obtain is a near-universal one, a qualification that would earn you a job at any medical facility you present it as part of a job application.
Potential nurses can get school grants for their CNA training program.
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