Free Practice Questions for Oklahoma CNA

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is the credentialing agency, and the competency evaluation is developed and delivered by the CareerTech Testing Center's Health Certification Project (HCP) at approved test sites across Oklahoma. The credential is the Long Term Care Nurse Aide certification, assessment 8607.

The Oklahoma Long Term Care Nurse Aide written exam (assessment 8607) has 70 multiple-choice questions with a 2-hour time limit, and OAC 310:677-3-11 requires a score of at least 70% to pass. Candidates may request an oral version of the same exam at registration.

Long-term care candidates perform seven skills within 60 minutes before an approved Clinical Skills Observer. Every scenario includes ambulation with a transfer belt, transferring between bed and wheelchair, range of motion, and measuring vital signs including blood pressure; the remaining three come from the published Nurse Aide Skills List. Candidates must perform all critical tasks correctly and complete the rest with at least 80% accuracy.

The clinical skills examination comes first. Oklahoma candidates become eligible to take the written or oral knowledge examination only after they have passed the clinical skills examination, which differs from many other states.

Oklahoma requires an OSDH-approved Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program of at least 75 clock hours under OAC 310:677-11-4. That must include at least 16 hours of instruction before any direct resident contact, at least 16 hours of supervised practical training, and a minimum of 10 hours on the care of Alzheimer's patients under 63 O.S. Section 1-1951.

Oklahoma does not publish a statewide nurse aide exam fee. Testing fees are established by each Health Certification Project test site according to its cost of administration, so candidates should contact their chosen test site for its current price.

A candidate must wait at least three days before retesting. Under OAC 310:677-3-12 an individual may retake an examination two times without further training, for three attempts per part. After a third failure the candidate must retrain before testing again, and failing one part does not void the part already passed.

Under OAC 310:677-5-2, a long term care aide renews every two years by filing a Renewal Application for Long Term Care Aide with a signed oath affirming at least 8 hours of nursing or health related services performed for compensation during the preceding 24 months. Oklahoma requires no continuing education hours for this renewal, and the $10 processing fee in that rule does not apply to long term care aides.

Report immediately to your supervising nurse. Under OAC 310:677-1-4, an employer must report any allegation of resident abuse, neglect, mistreatment, or misappropriation of property against a nurse aide to the Oklahoma State Department of Health by telephone within 24 hours of receiving the allegation. Call 911 for an emergency.

Yes. Under OAC 310:677-11-1(b), OSDH may approve an application for listing by reciprocity if the individual is listed in another state's registry as a certified long term care aide and has no notation of abuse, neglect, mistreatment, or misappropriation of property. No Oklahoma retesting is required, but the aide may not work in Oklahoma until actually listed on the Oklahoma registry.