What can I do before I'm certified?
2 min readRCW 18.88B.021 — Certification requirements
After completing orientation and safety training you may provide care while you work toward certification within your deadline window — but you cannot perform nurse-delegated tasks until you are certified and delegation-trained.
- 1Complete orientation & safety training before working with clients alone.
- 2You can provide routine personal care tasks in the care plan while completing your 75-hour training.
- 3You cannot: perform nurse-delegated tasks (insulin, etc.), or represent yourself as certified.
- 4Track your 120-day training and 365-day certification deadlines — missing them means you cannot keep working.
New IPs through CDWA: your training and exam scheduling run through Consumer Direct Care Network Washington — contact them for enrollment issues.
What to remember
- —Complete orientation & safety training before working with clients alone..
- —You can provide routine personal care tasks in the care plan while completing your 75-hour training..
- —You cannot: perform nurse-delegated tasks (insulin, etc.), or represent yourself as certified..