Earn your Ohio CNA certification — and start your healthcare career with confidence
Master the knowledge and skills required to pass Ohio's Nurse Aide competency exam and launch a confident, compassionate career in direct patient care.
"Confidence at the bedside isn't magic — it's preparation, and that's exactly what I'm here to give you."— Tara Niang
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate Ohio-approved nurse aide skills — including vital signs, transfers, and personal care — to the standard required at the state competency evaluation
- Apply infection control and standard precautions correctly in long-term care, hospital, and home health settings
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, and supervising nurses using professional, person-centered language
- Recognize and report changes in a patient's condition — including early signs of pressure injuries, respiratory distress, and falls risk — to the charge nurse
- Protect patient rights and maintain HIPAA-compliant confidentiality in every interaction
- Build and pass a personalized study plan for the Ohio Nurse Aide written and skills competency exam on the first attempt
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 22 lessons
Foundations of Nurse Aide Practice in Ohio
Establishes the legal, ethical, and professional groundwork every Ohio CNA must have before entering clinical or skills training. This module ensures students understand who they are, what they are permitted to do, and the non-negotiable rights they must protect — prerequisites for every module that follows.
- 1.1The Ohio CNA Role and Scope of PracticeIncluded
- 1.2Patient Rights and Person-Centered CareIncluded
- 1.3HIPAA and Confidentiality in Daily PracticeIncluded
- 1.4Professionalism, Ethics, and Abuse PreventionIncluded
Infection Control and Safety
Provides the universal precautions and physical safety skills that protect both patients and CNAs across every care setting. Placed second so that students apply these principles from the very first clinical skill they practice. Includes isolation procedures and transmission-based precautions — a gap present in the original draft — as well as workplace ergonomics and emergency response.
- 2.1Hand Hygiene and Standard PrecautionsIncluded
- 2.2PPE Selection, Donning, and DoffingIncluded
- 2.3Transmission-Based Precautions and Isolation ProceduresIncluded
- 2.4Workplace Safety: Body Mechanics, Fall Prevention, and Emergency ResponseIncluded
Personal Care and Activities of Daily Living
Develops the hands-on personal care skills that form the largest single block of Ohio competency evaluation tasks. Sequenced after infection control so students apply hand hygiene and PPE automatically during every skill. Special attention is given to dignity, choice, and cultural sensitivity throughout all ADL assistance.
- 3.1Hygiene Skills: Bathing, Oral Care, and GroomingIncluded
- 3.2Dressing, Toileting, and Elimination CareIncluded
- 3.3Nutrition, Hydration, and Feeding AssistanceIncluded
Clinical Skills: Vital Signs, Transfers, and Condition Monitoring
Builds the technical clinical skills assessed directly on the Ohio skills competency evaluation and ties procedural accuracy to the outcome of recognizing and reporting patient changes. Restorative care and special populations are included to ensure graduates are prepared for the full diversity of residents they will encounter on day one of employment.
- 4.1Measuring and Recording Vital SignsIncluded
- 4.2Transfers, Positioning, and Range of MotionIncluded
- 4.3Recognizing and Reporting Changes in ConditionIncluded
- 4.4Restorative Care and Special PopulationsIncluded
Communication and Documentation
Builds the professional communication and accurate documentation skills that run through every patient interaction and are a distinct tested domain on the Ohio written exam. Placed after clinical skills so that students can immediately connect documentation principles to the procedures they have already practiced. Includes electronic health records — a gap in the original draft.
- 5.1Therapeutic Communication with Residents and FamiliesIncluded
- 5.2Professional Communication with the Care TeamIncluded
- 5.3Accurate Documentation PrinciplesIncluded
Ohio Competency Exam Preparation and Certification
Consolidates and evaluates all prior learning against the exact standards of the Ohio Nurse Aide Competency Evaluation administered by Pearson VUE. Students receive personalized diagnostic feedback, targeted remediation, and a structured first-attempt pass strategy for both the written and skills components.
- 6.1Understanding the Ohio Competency Exam StructureIncluded
- 6.2Targeted Written Exam ReviewIncluded
- 6.3Skills Competency Evaluation — Full Practice and RemediationIncluded
- 6.4Personalized Study Plan and First-Attempt Pass StrategyIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Recent high school graduates
You want to get into healthcare fast, earn a real credential, and start working — this is the structured, state-aligned first step.
Career changers
You're leaving a different field and want meaningful work in patient care — this program speaks plainly, assumes no prior clinical background, and gets you certified.
Returning workforce adults
You've been out of the workforce and need a flexible, clearly paced program that fits around real life and leads to a stable healthcare job.
Nervous first-time learners
Medical settings feel intimidating right now, but this curriculum was built in plain language, with encouragement and real-world scenarios, specifically for you.
Aspiring long-term care aides
You want to work in a nursing home or assisted living setting and need every Ohio-approved skill — personal care, transfers, vitals — taught to exam standard.
Home health and hospital track students
You're aiming beyond the nursing home, and this program explicitly covers infection control and communication across hospital and home health settings too.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Tara Niang
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you already know you want to work in healthcare — you want to do something that matters, something where you can look back at the end of a shift and know you made a real difference for someone. But you're also looking at Ohio's CNA requirements, the competency exam, the clinical skills checklist, and thinking: where do I even start?
I built Ohio Nurse Aide Academy because that gap — between wanting to be in healthcare and knowing how to get there — is completely solvable with the right preparation. Not a stack of textbooks you have to decode on your own. Not a one-size-fits-all review course that assumes you already know the terminology. A structured, step-by-step program in plain language that takes you from the very foundations of the role all the way through a first-attempt exam strategy.
Here's what I want you to understand about how this program is built: every module is in sequence for a reason. We start with your scope of practice, patient rights, and HIPAA because those aren't just test topics — they shape how you show up in every patient interaction from day one. Then we move into infection control and safety, because protecting your residents and yourself is non-negotiable before we talk about any hands-on skill. From there, you build the personal care and clinical skills that make up the bulk of your daily work, and you learn to communicate and document the way a real care team expects. By the time we reach exam prep, you're not cramming — you're consolidating.
I also want to address the thing I hear most often from people at the start of this journey: "I'm not sure I'm cut out for this." You are. Confidence in this field isn't something you're born with — it's something you build by knowing your skills, knowing your responsibilities, and knowing what to do when something changes with a patient. That's exactly what this program teaches you. Every concept is anchored in a real scenario you'll actually encounter. Every skill is practiced to the standard you'll be held to.
The healthcare system needs compassionate, well-prepared CNAs. Ohio's long-term care facilities, hospitals, and home health agencies are full of patients who need exactly what you're about to learn how to give. Come ready to work — I'll make sure you're ready to pass.
— Tara Niang
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