| Background checks are a requirement for almost any | | | | records searched for would be specifically DUI's but |
| field, but to obtain a career as a nursing assistant, | | | | also other serious types of moving violations. Credit |
| they become especially important. Hospitals and | | | | checks are used to prove a pattern of responsibility |
| medical centers must safeguard not only patient | | | | regarding one's finances. Having a large debt load, a |
| information stored in databases and files, but also | | | | history of bankruptcies, or even a credit report full of |
| must safeguard the location and the safety of the | | | | late payments will lead some employers to |
| patients and visitors while on the medical center | | | | assumption that the person applying for the nursing |
| campus. Medical centers can be target areas of | | | | assistant position is at the very least irresponsible and |
| domestic and foreign terrorism due to the high | | | | might cause a potential problem in office property |
| number of people within the buildings and the ease of | | | | theft. |
| which people can enter and leave. With this in mind, | | | | The nursing assistant candidate may also be subject |
| one can be sure that any major hospital will be sure | | | | to a check of an past employment record. Studies |
| to conduct a background check on any future | | | | have been completed which have shown that |
| employees. | | | | 30-40% of all applications contact some form of |
| The type of patient you will be working with may | | | | false information. Dishonesty on an application is the |
| depend upon the type of background check that is | | | | easiest way to determine if the employment process |
| required to hold the position of nursing assistant. If | | | | can continue, and the nursing assistant applicant |
| the position involves working with children, most | | | | would be wise to not falsify his/her application. |
| states require the hiring hospital or medical center to | | | | In conclusion, when applying for the position of |
| do a criminal background check. It almost goes | | | | nursing assistant, be consistent and truthful with any |
| without saying, but a hospital should do all it can to | | | | information that you provide to the hospital or hiring |
| prevent persons involved in past child abuse, neglect, | | | | agency. If there are past problems with criminal or |
| or kidnapping charges to be precluded from a position | | | | credit histories, be upfront about those issues in the |
| of nursing assistant when the position is in a pediatric | | | | beginning. The nursing assistant applicant can be sure |
| setting. The criminal background check can also be | | | | that some form of background check will be |
| used when the nursing assistant will be working with | | | | completed when applying, so if the issues will cause |
| elderly or disabled patients, as these patients can be | | | | the company to make a decision against hiring, then |
| abused much easier than most other patients. | | | | the time spent waiting on that particular position will |
| The type of background check you receive when | | | | be lessened and allow the applicant to move on to |
| applying for a position as a nursing assistant may also | | | | another position. |
| include driving records and credit checks. The driving | | | | |