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Certified Nurse Aide

CNA

The credential the platform was built around.

Texas NATCEP-compliant nurse aide training — the federally-mandated 22-skill checklist, classroom and clinical hours, RN preceptor sign-off, and a one-click HHSC inspection export. This is the program running in production today, and the compliance backbone every other vertical inherits.

Texas-regulated credential

At a glance

Credential
State Nurse Aide Registry listing (post-exam)
Exam
State competency exam — written + skills demonstration
Regulator
Federal NATCEP (42 CFR §483.152) · Texas HHSC (26 TAC Ch. 556)
Hours
60 hrs classroom · 40 hrs clinical · 100 hrs (Texas)

Competency model

Supervised clinical-hour ledger
$39,530

median · $19.00/hr

+2%

2024–2034

~200,000

openings / year

Texas

state-regulated

Why the demand: Aging baby-boomer population and the single largest entry door into the healthcare workforce. BLS OOH, Nursing Assistants, May 2024.

The program

What students master.

The curriculum maps to the credential — every competency below becomes a tracked, signed-off record inside the platform.

1

Basic & personal-care skills

  • Handwashing & PPE
  • Vital signs
  • Bed bath, oral & perineal care
  • Transfers, ambulation, range of motion
2

Resident-centered care

  • Residents’ rights & dignity
  • Cognitive-impairment care
  • Mental-health & social needs
  • Basic restorative services
3

The 22-skill checklist

  • Federally-mandated competency set
  • RN-attested return demonstration
  • Hash-chained on sign-off
  • State performance record (Form 5497-NATCEP)

On the platform

How AscendantCare runs CNA.

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.

  • 1

    NATCEP, modeled natively

    The 100-hour split, the 16 pre-contact hours, and the 22-skill checklist are the data model — not a generic course bolted onto an LMS.

  • 2

    Inspection packet on demand

    HHSC can audit on-site or off-site at any reasonable time. One export assembles every hour, skill sign-off, and attendance record — hash-verified.

  • 3

    RN sign-off that holds up

    Every skill is co-signed by a licensed RN and locked. No administrator can silently rewrite a clinical hour or a competency grade.

The competitive edge

The only platform that produces the instructor-signed, date-stamped, per-trainee record set a state surveyor demands — instantly, on an unannounced visit.

Available now

Live in production today with CompassRN (Houston).

Enrollment

Who can enroll.

Six-gate enrollment compliance verifies every prerequisite before a student starts — and flags anything missing.

Age 16+ (varies by site)
TB clearance + immunizations
Background check
8 hrs infection-control/PPE before resident contact

Run Certified Nurse Aide on rails built for inspection.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly how CNA maps onto the platform — and where it sits on the build sequence.