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How to Become a Certified Assisted Living Nurse

February 9th, 2010 by admin | Filed under nurse


To prepare for the exam, you will want to think about your knowledge base, skills and experience. The four areas that are tested in the certification exam are recognizing the content outline shown at the American Nurses Credentialing Center website for their certification exams.

The four areas and the approximate percent of questions/items in each area of the AALNA Certification Exam for Assisted Living Nurses are:
• The Aging Population (approx 20% of items): includes demographics, social and health issues; theories of aging; communication; and end-of-life care issues.
• Review of Systems, Assessment, and Care Planning (approx 50%): common health problems of the older adult; interventions; pharmacotherapeutics.
• The Organization of Health Care delivery (approx 15%): regulations, reimbursement (Medicare/Medicaid), federal regulations (e.g., ADA), retention and discharge issues in AL.
• Professional Practice (approx 15%): includes management theory and style, staff development and performance evaluation; research and informed consent; negligence; ethical issues in practice; delegation and decision making; budget issues.

If you go to the Hartford Institute website (hartfordign.org) and follow the links to the Gerontological Nursing exam, you will find not only the free review course offered by the Hartford Institute in preparation for the ANCC gerontological nursing exam, you will also find a link to the ANCC website where additional test questions can be seen. [Please know that the Hartford Institute review course was targeted for acute care nurses. While the ANCC gerontological nursing exam and the AALNA exam have many similarities, the AALNA exam is assisted living nursing-specific.]

See also our Recommended Reading/Booklist, which can be found at alnursing.org . For study and refresher purposes, select a book specific to gerontological nursing practice and care of the older adult. There is no text or book for assisted living nursing management practice. However, some nursing administration books will provide information about management theory and practices, budget preparation, staff development, etc.

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