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Certified nursing assistant jobs are the most physical work in healthcare and the most consistently in demand. We place CNAs in long term care, hospitals, home health and hospice across the United States, on contract, PRN and permanent terms.
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CNA, STNA, LNA or nurse aide?
Same work, different titles, and which one you search for decides what you find.
Certified nursing assistant is the national term and what most facilities advertise. Ohio uses state tested nursing assistant, so STNA jobs there are the same role on a different registry. New Hampshire calls it licensed nursing assistant. Plenty of employers simply post nursing assistant jobs or nurse aide, and a few states use their own variation again.
If you have only ever searched one of those terms, you have been seeing a fraction of what is actually open.
Where CNAs work
Long term care and skilled nursing
Where most CNA work sits. Higher resident ratios, a regular assignment, and the setting where contract and PRN cover is most consistently available.
Hospitals
Lower ratios and sicker patients than long term care. Hospital posts often want extra skills stacked on the certification, such as phlebotomy, EKG or point of care testing.
Home health and hospice
A single patient, in their own front room, with family in the next chair. Hospice CNA jobs ask for a temperament as much as a skill set, and agencies will hold a post open for the right person.
Assisted living and memory care
More independence for the resident, more observation and less hands on care than skilled nursing. Steadier pace.
Correctional health
Prisons and jails. Predictable rosters, no call outs at midnight, and almost nobody searching for it.
Dialysis and specialty clinics
Daytime schedules with the weekend back. Most of these posts want a certification stacked on top of the CNA.
Certification, registries and working in another state
You sit on a state nurse aide registry rather than holding a license, and the registry entry is what an employer checks before you start. There is no compact, so moving state means reciprocity: most will accept an active entry in good standing, each runs its own process, and a lapsed entry takes far longer to restore than an active one.
Extra certifications widen what a CNA worker can be offered. Phlebotomy, EKG, restorative or medication aide credentials all open posts that the certification alone does not.
How much experience you need
Less than you might expect. Plenty of our contracts are open to newly certified CNAs, because long term care hires at entry level and trains on the floor. Where a facility does set a bar, [ 2 ] in the setting is the usual figure.
What matters more is which setting you have worked in. A CNA who has run a skilled nursing assignment and a CNA who has worked a hospital floor have done genuinely different jobs, and facilities treat them as separate experience.
Contract, PRN and permanent
All three are open. PRN is the most common arrangement in this role, because facilities flex CNA cover shift by shift as census moves, and a lot of CNAs build a week out of shifts across two or three facilities.
Most CNAs work with more than one agency, and cna agency jobs are often how people find steady hours without committing to one employer. If you are comparing cna placement agencies, ask each of them the same two things: who your point of contact will be, and what happens to your hours when a facility cancels a shift. A cna contract with guaranteed hours and one without are very different arrangements.
Do not see your role?
Shifts move fast in this role. A good number get covered off our own bench the same week they come in, before anything is advertised. Tell a recruiter which settings you know, which registries you are on, and what shifts you actually want. Call (866) 680-2920 or send us your details.
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Which settings hire the most CNAs?
Skilled nursing and long term care, by a long way. It is also where most of the contract and PRN cover sits, so it is the easiest setting to pick up hours in. Hospitals, home health, hospice and assisted living all recruit steadily but in far smaller numbers, and the day looks nothing alike between them.
Will my certification transfer if I move?
Generally yes, by reciprocity, though nurse aides have nothing like the nursing compact to make it automatic. Every state runs its own transfer process and most want to see an active registry entry in good standing. Give us the states you are thinking about and we will find out where you stand before anything is agreed.
Do I need experience to get a contract?
Often not. A newly certified CNA can walk into skilled nursing work, and most of the training happens on the floor anyway. Where a bar does exist it is usually [ 2 ], and which setting those months were in counts for more than the number itself.
What is the difference between STNA and CNA?
Only the name and the registry. Ohio calls it state tested nursing assistant. The work, the training and the scope are the same as a certified nursing assistant anywhere else.
Do CNAs pay anything to work with an agency?
Not with us. The facility covers our fee, so nothing comes out of your rate and there is nothing to pay up front.
Which states do you place CNAs in?
We place CNAs in 19 states right now. The live list, updated as openings come in and fill, is in the CNA jobs by state section further down.
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Bring the settings you have worked in, the states you are on the registry for, and the shifts that actually suit you.
Rates are broken down on our CNA pay page. Contracts, housing and what a first assignment is like sit on our travel nursing page.