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Nursing assistants???!?!?


how old do you have to be to work as a nursing assistant? are there any prerequisites?

You must be 18 and be a caring, responsibe person. You need to be literate and able to take orders but also work on some initiate. I dont know what the entry qualifications are now...they have changed since I was nursing.

Actually Mikey the above answer is NOT false, it is perfectly true! There are other counties apart from the USA, and if you had read the question you would see that the questioner referred to the term "Nursing Assistant" Report It

THE ABOVE ANSWER IS FALSE!!!
I am a Certified Nurses Aide in Massachusetts. I started working at age 17, as a CNA. The only drawback was that I could not work after 10PM, and more than 8 hours/day, once I became 18 I could work regularly. I had to take a 2 month class from the red cross, and pass a state exam to become certified.

Most of the time 18 years old. You have to go thru an approved CNA class and then take a test. In some nursing homes, they will train you (and pay you for training) and then you work for them.

depends if you're on about in the uk or the us. in the uk, a hca (healthcare assistant) can start from 18, all you need is to be literate, have c's in some GCSE's and be able to do a 6 week course in manual handling etc, or on the job training depending on the nhs trust you work within

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