CNA Blogs

Here are blogs about being a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).

1. Be In the Know!: Understand the basics of being a nursing assistant, and learn about what you need to know, as well as find career helps and information.
2. CNA Employment: This is a helpful blog that looks at career prospects for Certified Nursing Assistants.
3. CNA Training Programs: Learn about how you can become a CNA, and the different training programs available.
4. CNA Training Class and Jobs: Learn about career opportunities and possibilities as a CNA.
5. CNA-Schools Blog: Learn about what a CNA does, and learn about different opportunities available.
6. CNA Certification and CNA Training: This is a new blog that promises to help you figure out what you can do as a nursing assistant.

Nurse Practitioner Blogs

Learn about what it’s like to be a nurse practitioner. You can get valuable insight into what life is like for these nurses, and learn what you need to know to assist these nurses.

7. New NP: Learn about life as a nurse practitioner, especially one getting her feet wet.
8. A Nurse Practitioner’s View: Get an idea of the health care system from the point of view of a nurse practitioner. Helpful for nursing assistants looking for more health care knowledge.
9. The Nurse Practitioner’s Place: A great blog for all of those in any profession related to nursing.
10. The Nervewracking Nurse Practitioner: Learn about having nerves of steel as you navigate life in the nursing profession.
11. What school doesn’t teach about being a nurse practitioner: This blog offers helpful insights — and information you won’t learn in a nurse assistant program!
12. The Beast…: Follow this nurse practitioner as she blogs about a rare form of cancer. Her husband was affected and died, but she still blogs. Helpful insights for nursing assistants on caring for patients with cancer.
13. Bailey Blog: Follow this family of a Michelle, a nurse practitioner. Offers some good relief.

Hospice Care Blogs

Learn about what it’s like to work in hospice care. Valuable insights for nursing assistants considering hospice care.

14. Pallimed: Get an idea of hospice care and palliative care. Perfect for nursing assistants who want to keep up with this type of nursing.
15. Hospice Blog: A look at issues surrounding hospice care.
16. Dethmama Chronicles: Get an inside look at life as a hospice care nurse.
17. Hospice Foundation Blog: Learn more about hospice, and how to navigate it, from this blog.
18. The Good Death: Learn about allowing patients to die with dignity.
19. Risa’s Pieces: An interesting look at palliative and hospice care from a nurse practitioner.
20. Hospice Physician’s Blog: Learn about hospice care from a physician’s viewpoint. Valuable for any nursing assistant who wants a better view of palliative and hospice care.

Nursing Home Blogs

Get a good idea of what it’s like to work in a nursing home. This is great information for any nursing assistant.

21. Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog: Covers different aspects of what is going on in hospices and nursing homes around the country.
22. My Better Nursing Home: Get involved in creating better nursing home environments. Very help for nursing assistants.
23. The Nursing Home Administrator: A look at what goes on in nursing homes — from the inside.
24. ElderCare ExpertBlog: A look at elder care, providing valuable insights for nursing assistants about nursing home care and other issues related to elder care.
25. Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: Learn to identify abuse issues, and become a better, more involved nursing assistant.
26. South Carolina Nursing Home Bog: News and information from the world of nursing homes and nursing home law.

Hospital Blogs

Understand what it takes to be a good nursing assistant in a nursing home.

27. Running a Hospital: Addresses the ins and outs of hospital administration. Can give nursing assistants who work in hospitals valuable insight.
28. Hospital Impact: Learn about life in a hospital for a number of those in the nursing profession.
29. Emergiblog: Learn about life in the emergency room.
30. The Happy Hospitalist Blog: A blog about unfiltered medicine while working in a hospital.
31. code blog: This follows the adventures of a nurse working in a hospital. Learn from another’s experiences.
32. Craig Hospital Blog: Learn about what is going on at Craig Hospital, and get insight about working in a hospital.

Health Policy Blogs

Keep up with the latest policy issues surrounding health care. A good nursing assistant should be up on what is happening.

33. HIPAA Blog: This offers all sorts of useful information about HIPAA regulations and reminders. This is stuff you need to know.
34. Health Wonk Review: Get a weekly dose of the latest news from the health care world.
35. Wright on Health: A look at the international and U.S. health systems.
36. Health Policy Blog: The Mayo Clinic offers a look inside the policies that shape our health care system.
37. Health Affairs Blog: Keep up with the latest in health policy and news.
38. Say Ahhh!: This is a blog that focuses on children’s health policy. Great for nursing assistants helping in pediatrics.
39. Health Policy and Communications Blog: A great place to go to learn about health policy, and how to communicate about it.

Patient Care Blogs

These blogs address working with different types of patients. They are rather helpful in terms of being a better nursing assistant.

40. The Gimp Parade: This blog is written by a disabled feminist, and provides insight into patient care.
41. A Chronic Dose: An interesting look at chronic illness, and health issues that go along with it.
42. Undiagnosed Illness: Provides helpful information on caring for patients who are suffering from illnesses that have not been diagnosed.
43. Imagine Bright Futures II: Get a look at life from the perspective of this blogger with breast cancer.
44. Healthy Concerns: A patient offers her view of the health care system.
45. Every Patient’s Advocate: Learn more about being a patient advocate, helping your patients.

Nursing Student Blogs

If you are looking to take the step from nursing assistant to RN — and beyond — you can read these blogs for more information on being a nursing student.

46. Life of a Male Student Nurse: Men and women alike can benefit from this insight into being a nursing student.
47. I Am a Student Nurse: This blog is about the challenges associated with studying to become a nurse.
48. How I Spent My Nursing Education: Get an idea of tools and tips and more from nursing school.
49. Becoming a Nurse: Even though this blog is no longer updated, it has years of archives, and helpful information on getting through nursing school.
50. Head Nurse: Get a lot of practical advice on becoming a nurse from this experienced nurse.

General Health and Medical Information

These web sites contain useful information on medical topics, from identifying the symptoms of different conditions, to offering useful information on preventing illness.

1. WebMD: This is the granddaddy of health and medical web sites. Get reliable information on a number of health topics that can affect you and your family.
2. Discovery Health: This health information from Discovery Channel is educational, and includes kid-friendly activities and information that you can share with your children.
3. NIH – Health Information: The National Institutes of Health offers a number of helpful articles and resources on medical topics ranging from child and teen health to wellness and lifestyle information.
4. Centers for Disease Control: Another government web site that offers solid information, as well as information on avoiding illness.
5. Healthline: Provides medical information and learning centers related to various medical concerns and health issues.
6. Health Central: Read up on different medical conditions, and learn more about health and wellness. Includes symptoms of common afflictions.
7. Wrong Diagnosis: Helpful information on how you can identify common diseases, and helpful checklists and information that you can use to take to the doctor so that you and your family are better patients.
8. MayoClinic.com: This is the web site associated with the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Find information on a range of medical and health topics.
9. Virtual Hospital: This site from the University of Iowa provides information on medical topics from neurology to family medicine to pediatrics to surgery.
10. CNN Health: Keeps you up to date on the latest health and medical news of the day.

Diet and Nutrition

Make sure you know what’s best for your family to eat here are some diet and nutrition resources that can help you increase your family’s health through proper eating habits.

11. Nutrition Data: Includes information about what’s in your food. Learn how to read a nutrition label, and get news and information on different nutrition topics.
12. Nutrition.gov: This is the site operated by the U.S. government, designed to help you find the best nutrition for your family.
13. MyPyramid.gov: Learn about how the Food Pyramid can be used to help you create a healthy diet for your family.
14. Yahoo! Health: Use this great section on diet (and fitness) to learn effective ways that you can increase your nutrition. Includes answers to nutrition and diet questions.
15. Nutrition Center: This site is offered by the American Heart Association, and focuses on heart-healthy eating habits for the whole family.
16. The Nutrition Source: Harvard’s School of Public Health describes health eating habits, and helps you get on the right track for overall family health.
17. Nutrition Navigator: Tufts University offers this look into learning about nutrition, and provides activities related to nutrition, and addresses specific nutrition needs for different age groups.
18. Nutrition Tools: Northwestern University offers a number of helpful nutrition resources, information and activities that can help you chart a course to healthier eating.
19. FastRecipes: Get access to great recipes that are easy to make. Includes healthy recipes as well.

Exercise and Fitness

Learn tips on getting your family shape. Learn about exercise and fitness from trusted sources.

20. Exercise: About.com offers good information on exercise for the whole family.
21. Family Fitness: This is another About.com resource that offers tips aimed specifically at family exercise.
22. Shape Up America!: This site is designed to help you get excited about exercise and fitness, and includes helpful tips on getting the whole family involved.
23. Fitness.gov: The U.S. government offers a site on improving fitness, and the importance of physical activity.
24. Quick to Fit: This site offers helpful tips and information on proper fitness in today’s fast paced world.
25. Children & Exercise: This web site is provided by the American Heart Association, and aimed at providing parents with activities and information they can use to help get their kids moving.
26. Exercise Safety Association: Learn how to exercise safely, reducing the chance of injury.
27. Play Outdoors: A great resource for families interested in enjoying outdoor exercise and adventures.

Organic, Natural and Vegetarian/Vegan Lifestyle

If you are into seeing how your health can be enhanced with a more natural lifestyle, you can consider these web sites.

28. Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group: This is a practice group related to the American Dietetic Association, and provides helpful information on living as a vegetarian.
29. Organic.org: Learn about how you can live an organic lifestyle, from the meat you eat to money saving tips on organic produce.
30. Organic Consumers Association Health Research Center: Get information on living healthy as an organic family.
31. NRDC: Green Living: The Natural Resources Defense Council offers this site on green living, avoiding toxic chemicals and increasing your health and wellness.
32. Vegan Health: Learn about vegan health from Jack Norris, a registered dietitian.
33. Gary Null: Provides information on natural living, alternative health, vegetarianism and other subjects.
34. Natural Living for Women: Use this site as a resource for beauty tips, as well as natural ideas for everything from buying products to raising your children.
35. Green People: A great resource for finding information on eco-friendly health tips, products and lifestyle ideas.

Healthy Parenting

Learn about healthy parenting and other subjects that can help you as you strive to raise healthy and happy children.

36. Health Parenting Initiative: This is a site put out by the Department of Defense, aimed at helping military families cope with separation and providing resources and hints for getting through this time.
37. Parenting: MedlinePlus, a resource offered by the National Institutes of Health, provides a number of useful articles and resources on healthy parenting.
38. Parenting: This section on MedicineNet.com offers insights into parenting practices that can increase your kids’ health.
39. Healthy Parenting: Get information on raising children, with a focus on natural and green practices.
40. Health Parenting Today: Resources on how to create a healthy environment for your children, including on how you can understand teens, strengthen your marriage and build trust.
41. Parenting.com: Tips, articles and more on raising healthy kids from conception to adulthood.
42. MomSense: This resource from Christianity Today is aimed at helping parents raise healthy and spiritually strong children.
43. Parenting Center: Head over here to get WebMD’s take on different conditions and issues that relate to raising kids.

Keeping Yourself Healthy

It’s important for moms to feel healthy –  emotionally, mentally and physically. Here are some sites aimed at helping you learn what you can do to keep yourself healthy, so that you are a better mom.

44. Stress Management: This resource from About.com provides you with tools and tips on reducing your stress and anxiety.
45. BlogHer: Resources and information on a variety of issues related to physical and emotional well-being, as well as commentary on health, wellness, politics and more — all with a female perspective.
46. Busy Mom: Find tips on keeping yourself sane and reasonably content as your deal with life.
47. SingleMom.com: Get help and information, as well as resources and tips aimed at helping single moms get through it all.
48. Mom2Mom: Tips and information on improving your life with this site aimed at moms.
49. Life Balance: Learn ways to bring balance into your life, complete with resources and tools.
50. Meditation Center: Get information and help in practicing meditation.

General Hospice Care Blogs

Get a general idea of what hospice care is all about, and learn more about your options and the possibilities.

1. Hospice Blog: This offers information on hospice care, and the fight for quality care.
2. Hospice Physician’s Blog: Learn about hospice and how it works from a doctor working in the field.
3. Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog: Hospice practices, insights, research, news and issues.
4. Hospice and Caregiving Blog: News, information and more surrounding hospice care, as well as information for caregivers.
5. Home Care Law Blog: This blog focuses on legal issues surrounding home hospice care.
6. Alive Hospice Blog: Learn more about hospice care and end of life issues from a hospice provider.
7. Hospice: Learn more about hospice care, and what goes into it, as well as what to expect.
8. Life as a Hospice Patient: This is an interesting firsthand account of a hospice patient, and what hospice care means to her.
9. Compton Hospice: Get a view of hospice care from a British perspective.

Elder Care Blogs

Find out about senior living, and how hospice care can fit into the picture. These blogs also include information about finding hospice care and making the most of it.

10. AARP: Read the blog from the AARP, including coverage of issues related to health care, hospice care and end of life.
11. Eldercare ABC Blog: Learn about the essentials of elder care, and find valuable resources and support.
12. Elder Care Diary: Keep up with the day to day activities of a family involved in elder care.
13. ElderCare Expert: Get useful insights and helpful hints from someone who has been involved in senior care for a long time.
14. The New Old Age: A look at the way we age in these modern times. An interesting look at hospice, assisted living and other related issues.
15. Senior Care Blog: Learn about issues associated with aging, as well as elder health, and information on long term home care.
16. Choosing Elder Care: A review of different options in elder care, and helpful information and resources.
17. Elder Care Blog: Learn about issues that come up in elder care, as well as issues relating to end of life.

Death Care Blogs

Get insight into the end of life process, and learn about how hospice care can fit into this.

18. Death Care Law Blog: Keep up with what your rights are in end of life, and find information about pre-need issues.
19. Death Care Law: Another interesting legal blog focusing on death issues.
20. How We Die: An interesting look at stories from people regarding death, and how we view death as a society.
21. Medical Futility Blog: Get a tongue in cheek look at the issues — judicial, legislative and political — surrounding the end of life.
22. The Good Death: Bringing about death with dignity, and a look at how society deals with death.
23. Death Care: Looks at issues surrounding death, as well as provides resources to help you make more informed decisions.

Pain Management Blogs

One of the important functions of hospice care is to provide pain management. Read about different options and treatments, as well as additional information on palliative care.

24. Palliative Care: This About.com blog focuses on pain management, as well as easing some of the other symptoms often associated with the approach of life’s end.
25. GeriPal: This blog focuses on palliative care and pain management in the elderly. Offers helpful posts and insight into different medicinal options.
26. Pallimed: A look at the role palliative care plays in the way hospice care handles end of life.
27. Palliative Care Success: Explores the successes seen in pain management and symptom control as part of hospice care.
28. Pain Management Blog: Focuses on different advances in pain management.
29. Chronic Pain Management: Learn how to deal with chronic pain, and help others deal with it.
30. St. Christopher’s Blog: Malcolm Payne: This blog is offered up by St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, and provides insight into palliative care and social care for end of life.
31. Palliative Care Bulletin: Get the latest news alerts about end of life care.

Nursing Home Blogs

While not exactly hospice care, nursing homes can provide many of the same services. Learn about different nursing home options and possibilities, as well as preparation for long-term care.

32. My Better Nursing Home: Get an idea of what better nursing home care could look like, and how we might be able to get there.
33. My Elder Advocate: This blog deals mostly with issues related to nursing homes, and your rights with regard to them.
34. The Nursing Home Administrator: Get an insider’s view of how a nursing home is run from a nursing home administrator in Indiana.
35. Jonathon Rosenfeld’s Nursing Homes Abuse Blog: This blog focuses on nursing home abuses, and shows you how you can get better care from your nursing home.
36. South Carolina Nursing Home Blog: News and information related to nursing homes, especially those in South Carolina.

Caregiver Blogs

Being a caregiver for someone approaching their end of life can be difficult. Learn about others’ experiences and find sources of strength and support.

37. Caregiver List: Helpful information on where to find information about different facilities, training and other items.
38. Inside Elder Care: Get a firsthand look at caring for others. This blog is written by someone who is caring for his aging mother.
39. Lasting Tribute: This isn’t just about the elderly. You can leave stories and messages about anyone who has died. But the blog includes plenty of interesting stories from caregivers and others.
40. Risa’s Pieces: Learn about what it’s like to be a hospice caregiver from this compassionate professional.
41. Caring for Aging Parents: Learn about how you can cope with caring for aging parents, and find support as well as answers to your questions.
42. Caregiver Support Blog: Find support in your position as caregiver, and read about others.
43. The Caregiver’s Blog: Learn about being a caregiver and find support from others in a similar position.
44. Caregiving: Tips and hints for caregivers, especially those who are caring for people with Alzheimer’s.

Nurse Blogs

Get professional insight from health care professionals who have some experience with end of life.

45. Dethmama Chronicles: Follow the adventures of this end of life nurse. Includes some funny insights and more.
46. Midwife for the End-of-Life: Get accounts of what it’s like to be a nurse caring for those who are near death.
47. code blog: This nurse shares her experience as an ICU nurse, as well as insights on end of life.
48. River of Life: Notes of a Hospice Nurse: This video offers a look into life as a hospice nurse.
49. A Hospice Nurse’s Story: This post on from the Center to Champion Nursing in America offers a poignant look at what it’s like to care for others in a hospice setting.
50. Minnesota HomeCare Association’s Nurse Consultant BLOG: Get an idea of what is going on in the world of home care nursing.

The following list of twenty-five amazing infographics and studies show the cost of sickness in two categories: Various illness Cost Reports and Cost of Specific Illnesses and Treatments. Each link within these two categories is listed alphabetically by article title. These articles include a wide range of perspectives including opinion and scholarly papers.

Various Illness Cost Reports

1. An Assessment of OECD Health Care System Using Panel Data Analysis: The health care delivery system of twenty five OECD nations, including the United States, is analyzed in this paper, along with the impact of economic, institutional, and social factors in determining dependent variables are measured and evaluated.
2. Bankruptcy Reform and the Costs of Sickness: Exploring the Intersections [PDF]: Melissa Jacoby delves into the connection between medical-related financial distress among bankruptcy filers.
3. Cost of Disease in the United States in the Year 2000 [PDF]: A good resource to use as a comparison for later reports, originally published in Public Health Reports.
4. Cost of Illness: The Centers for Disease Control offers this report on how to determine the cost of illness (COI) in the U.S. and beyond.
5. Cost of Illness Handbook: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a report on COI and various factors that can mitigate that cost.
6. Cost-of-Illness Studies: Research Triangle Institute (RTI) produced several reports on COI conditions and studies, including reports from the 2000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) report, “Disease-Specific Estimates of Direct and Indirect Costs of Illness and NIH Support.”
7. Long-Term Cost of the American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009; As Amended by the Energy and Commerce Committee In August 2009 [PDF]: The Lewin Group, a national health care and human services consulting firm, released this report conducted for The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a group dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America’s future.
8. Naughty Max Baucus: “The only thing that’s not on the table is a single-payer system.”: Scroll down the page to view charts and graphs that show statistics on what the United States spends per capita to provide health care to the population, international comparison of spending on health 1980-2006 and many more charts with similar focuses.
9. Paying With Their Lives – The Cost of Illness for Children in Africa: This 2006 report focuses on healthcare costs for African children and how those fees effect wellness.
10. Price of Sickness [PDF]: USA Today provides a resource for teachers to teach statistics; but, it also provides an interesting snapshot on the cost of average prescription-drug price in dollars.
11. Work Absence in Europe [PDF]: This report focuses in sickness absence in europe and build on an analytical framework in which absence enters both labor supply and demand considerations.
12. Workforce Information Report March 2009 [PDF]: This report provides an example of charts and statistics used to represent the Nottinghamshire Community Health Board about status of a variety of workforce indicators, including sickness absence rates and estimated cost of sickness.

Cost of Specific Illnesses and Treatments

13. An Online Cost Calculator for Estimating the Economic Cost of Illness Due to Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC) 0157 Infections: The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides statistics on the costs of food-borne illnesses.
14. An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease: The Milken Institute details the financial impact created by chronic disease on the U.S. economy in terms of treatment costs and lost worker productivity.
15. Cost Does Not Equal Equality: This New York Times chart showcases the amount a hospital receives for heart bypass surgery and how it does not relate to how patients actually fare from that surgery.
16. Cost of Illness of Alzheimer’s Disease: How Useful Are Current Estimates? The abstract for this article is detailed, including links. You can download the entire article from links in the upper and lower right corners of this page.
17. Cost of Illness of Hyponatremia in the United States: Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte disorder encountered in clinical medicine and is associated with negative outcomes in many chronic diseases.
18. Cost-of-Illness and Willingness-to-Pay Estimates of the Benefits of Improved Air Quality: Evidence from Taiwan: This report compares the COI and WTP estimates of the damages from minor respiratory symptoms associated with air pollution using data from a study in Taiwan in 1991-92.
19. Depression: Cost-of-illness Studies in the International Literature, a Review [PDF]: What does depression cost for patients and medical institutions and what are its implications for health policies? Read this report, developed in Italy, to learn more.
20. Results of America’s Drug War: Statistics and graphs showcase the cost of America’s war on drugs compared to the Netherlands and other statistics.
21. The Burden of Illness of Cancer: Economic Cost and Quality of Life: Learn more about the main measures of burden of disease as related to cancer through this online report, prepared by the National Cancer Institute.
22. The Dementia Worldwide Cost Database: This European report shows a cost model based upon a combination of prevalence estimates, country and region specific data on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person and average wage.
23. The Economic Costs of Infectious Diseases: The Australian Parliament produced this report (with a graph) in 1993 to reveal the problems and costs behind Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
24. The Growing Crisis of Chronic Disease in the United States [PDF]: This report, which includes charts, covers all chronic diseases such as heart disease, asthma, cancer and diabetes.
25. Trends in the Early Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease: Worldwide Market Opportunities: This market research article showcases the cost and market opportunities for vendors in the treatment of cardiovascular disease worldwide.

We should be able to understand what it entails in healthy eating which involves;

Start Eating, Smartly: If you don’t have any exact idea what to eat and what to avoid in order to keep your heart healthy, you can follow guidelines of The American Heart Association and get their website and ask doctor over there about recommend diet for you. You can reduce consumption of your red meat instead can start eating Cook chicken and fish. Can try vegetables with new varieties and experimentation.

Have an eye over consumed water:  Drinking ample water daily and regularly is quite good for the health of your heart. Unless you are advised not to do so, you can have as much as eight glasses of water daily. You can also have other beverages but remain away from sugar and nutrition less products.

Exercise Daily: You can involve a short number of exercises into your daily routine that can help to your physique as well as health. Walking at a moderate pace for 30 to 60 minutes daily can improve your tone, muscles and enhance metabolism in you.  Reasonable footwear and dresses can also sort health related problems faced by you.

Start Managing Stress:  As we are part of the modern life that is filled with type of comfort offered by it as well stress that we come across our daily time and routine. So we just need to keep that stress and pain away and need to live with joyous and eventful moments of the life.

Socialize: You should socialize among your group of friends and family friend to keep sore moments of the life away from you. Get yourself out of restrictions and live full and joyous moments with laugher and fun to keep your heart hail and healthy and fit.

Avoid Fatty Substances: Some meals are made using cheese, creams, fats and salt and these pose a great risk to the health of your heart. Others are also made using bacon and fatty meet cuts. They are also very dangerous and alternatively one can use lean meat, skinless fish or chicken. Generally, it is good to avoid foods that are fried for they contain high trans-fats.

Start Using Vegetables in Ample Quantity: Relying on fruits, salads, or vegetables is better that the intake of chips, French fries. This will enable you to adhere to your diet plan and would keep your heart healthy.

A nurse assistant will at times be required to observe and monitor the patients’ emotional and physical conditions and make a report to the medical staff or the nurses. The best thing about taking up this career is that it has maximum flexibility since you can choose to take up jobs in home facilities. Examples of where a nurse assistant can be needed is by the elderly, mentally disabled, the disabled and in the residential places that need home medical services. A nurse assistant can specialize in taking care of small children too. The services of an aide nurse can also come in handy where a discharged patient needs help at home.

To become a successful nurse assistant you must have a desire in helping people. This is a job that requires responsibility; it is not about how hard you work its all about the compassion you will have when performing your nursing duties.

There are requirements that one will need to have before becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant. A nursing assistant training from a reputable school will be required. These days there are internet based Assistant Nursing Courses that can earn you that certificate to work. In most institutions the courses undertaken are taught by qualified registered nurses. There are different levels that the course has to go through, but the period or length of a course will depend on the program chosen.