Training facilities that offer you nursing assistant programs located in Belmond, Iowa are listed on this page. These courses have been approved by the Iowa Direct Care Worker Registry and will grant you access to take the license examination upon completion. For more information, please call the number below to speak with a school representative.
Belmond-Klemme Community School District
411 10th Ave., NE,
Belmond, IA 50421
(641) 444-4300
http://www.bkcsd.org/
It is not that hard to become a nursing assistant or direct care worker in the state of Iowa if you know what the different requirements are. For you to be able to work legally as a nurse aide in Iowa, you must be a certified to work. For you to become certified you will need to enroll in and finish a nursing assistant training course and take the state exams. To be able to achieve that you must first enroll in CNA classes. These programs are found all over the state and can be completed in a few months of training. The state requires that certified programs must offer at least 75 hours of training where 30 of those will be for skills or clinical experience. If you are already working in a nursing care facility, your training fees will be paid for by your employers.
Most training courses will take several weeks and the state examination fees are around $45. After you complete your training, you can then proceed and apply for the license exams. They are offered by different testing centers, which are mostly community colleges. You will need to pass both the written and the skills demonstration to get your name entered in the registry. Once your name is entered in the state’s Nurse Aide Registry it is valid for a period of two years. In order to keep your certification in good standing you will need to work at least 8 hours during a 24 consecutive month period.
The city of Belmond is the county seat of Wright County. You can find this city a few miles from Clarion. You may use the U.S. Highway 69 to get to this city. According to the 2010 census, their total population was around 2,376 people. This is a decline of about 200 people from the 2000 census. The last known population density was estimated to be around 820/sq mile. The total area of this city is approximately 2.9 sq miles, where all of it is land.
Examples of health care centers and providers that are available in the city include Take Care Clinic at select Walgreens, Belmond Medical Center, Eatwell Lindy DO, Kollasch Albert J MD, and a few more. photo attribution: iubmedicalsciences