Direct patient care
Certified Medication Aide
CMA
The natural next step after CNA — same regulator, same rhythm.
Texas’s 140-hour Medication Aide program runs under the same HHSC long-term-care credentialing regime as CNA, with a return-demonstration skills lab and supervised clinical hours under a licensed nurse. It reuses the CNA pipeline almost as-is, which makes it the fastest second program to launch.
At a glance
- Credential
- Exam
- Regulator
- Hours
Competency model
Return-demo lab + clinical-hour ledgerThe program
What students master.
The curriculum maps to the credential — every competency below becomes a tracked, signed-off record inside the platform.
Medication administration
Pharmacology basics
Supervised practice
On the platform
How AscendantCare runs CMA.
This isn't a new build — it's the CNA compliance backbone, configured. The same ledgers, the same sign-off, the same inspection-grade records.
Built on the CNA pipeline
Skills lab = the checklist engine
Permit + renewal tracking
The competitive edge
Upsell your CNA graduates into a medication-qualified credential without leaving the platform or rebuilding compliance.
In development
Enrollment
Who can enroll.
Six-gate enrollment compliance verifies every prerequisite before a student starts — and flags anything missing.
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