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Requirements for Home Care Aide Certification

Complete the fingerprint-based background check (If Unemployed or starting an Adult Family Home, Put Unemployed in Application and your Fingerprint is free)

How to Become a Home Care Aide Certified

As of February 29, 2024, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) made changes to their Home Care Aide (HCA) credential and exam scheduling process. If you are still completing your HCA certification process, you will get an email from Prometric with information on how to log into the new website. After logging in, you will be able to view your profile, exam activity and self-schedule for your English exam(s).

Nurse Delegation Core Training and Nurse Delegation Special focus Diabetes

Washington Care Academy offers Nurse Delegation Core Training and Nurse Delegation special focus on diabetes. For more information, please give me a call at (206) 306-6588. Our courses are online interactive and proctored online.

Starting an Adult Family Home

To be an adult family home provider you will be required to care for the most vulnerable members of our society, including persons with challenging behaviors, physical and developmental disabilities, mental illness and the elderly. If you become licensed, you assume a serious responsibility that will have a large impact on you and your family members’ lives.

Nurse Delegation Core Training

The Nurse Delegation Program, under Washington State law, allows nursing assistants working in certain settings to perform certain tasks–such as administration of prescription medications or blood glucose testing–normally performed only by licensed nurses.

Home Care Aide Training

My name is Faduma Mursal, I’m an RN with my BSN and I started Washington Care Academy (www.washingtoncareacademy.com) in 2018 in recognizing the need for an affordable online option for DSHS approved home care aide training. I’ve been a Registered Nurse for 8+ years and have trained over 3,000+ home care aide and nursing assistants.

Skills Lab

Governor Inslee directed all schools within Washington State to cease in-person classes as of March 17, 2020 through at least May 31, 2020. This includes all public and private institutions that provide any type of career and technical training as well as degree granting institutions.

How long does it take to become a home health aide

How long does it take to become a home health aide? That is a good question. The answer to that is it depends on each individual. For most care givers, it takes about 75 hours to become a home health aide. Once you complete the training requirement, you will need to submit an application with the state for testing and certification.

How do you become a certified home health aide

How you can become a certified home health aide in Washington State. The first thing you need to do is take the 75 hour home care aide training class but it must be DSHS approved. Washington Care Academy offers an online interactive DSHS approved training.

Mental Health Specialty Training

Washington Care Academy offers Mental Health Specialty Training every Saturday and Sunday at Kent,WA. The lead training is a DSHS approved RN, BSN

Dementia Specialty Training

Washington Care Academy offers Dementia Specialty Training offered every Saturday and Sunday at Kent, WA Dementia Specialty Training offered every Saturday and Sunday at Renton, WA

Mental Health Level 1 Specialty Training

This course is for caregivers, resident managers, and providers in long term care settings. You will obtain an introduction to the different types of dementia and an introduction to mental disorders.

75 Hour Home Care Aide Training

The following short presentation provided by Washington DSHS will help you understand:

Washington Care Academy | DSHS-Approved Home Care Aide Training Providing Washington State’s most trusted online 75-hour HCA training and caregiver certification courses. We specialize in DSHS-approved curriculum for Home Care Aide (HCA) certification, Nurse Delegation Core, and Nurse Delegation Diabetes training. Our interactive online platform prepares students for the state exam and meets all requirements for Adult Family Homes (AFH), Assisted Living Facilities (ALF), and in-home care providers. Expand your skills with our Mental Health & Dementia Specialty Training.

Serving: Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Vancouver, Bellevue, and statewide across Washington.

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