Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Law and Legal Definition
Certified nursing assistant (CNA) is a person who assists patients with healthcare needs and cares for a patient who is ill or recovering from a surgery or disease. CNA’s duties are assigned by a registered professional nurse. Sometime they provide service on activities of daily living, bedside care, including basic nursing procedures under the supervision of a registered nurse.
A CNA is a person who has successfully completed a training program or course with a curriculum prescribed by the state in which s/he resides. Classes for CNA are conducted by a nurse or certified instructor in a community college or nursing home. Upon completion of classes, a certificate will be awarded. Later upon qualifying the state certification exam they become CNA.
Legal Definition list
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Certified Monitoring Program
- Certified Management Accountant
- Certified Mail
- Certified Local Government
- Certified Organic Farm
- Certified Organic Handling Operation
- Certified Pollution Control Facility
- Certified Public Accountant Firm [CPA Firm]
- Certified Public Accountants
- Certified Real-Time Reporter
Related Legal Terms
- Accelerated Nursing Degree Program
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA]
- Assistant Jurisdiction
- Assistant Presiding Arbitrator
- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
- Assistantship (Education)
- Associate Degree School of Nursing.
- Board Certified Physician
- Board-Certified
- Certified 8[a] Firm
