To verify a nurse’s status like the eligibility to work in a nursing home facility, the Nurse Aide employers use the Nurse Aide Registry. Basically this is for the ease of an employer to verify whether the nurse aide has fulfilled the state’s legal and ethical requirements related to the training and examination. Every nurse aide has to maintain an active status on the nurse aide registry.

Every state in Unites states of America owns a Nurse Aide Registry , that helps them keep records of all the qualified individuals, who are eligible to work as a certified nurse aide.basically this registry helps to-

• to approve and monitor all nurse aide training programs
• to design the competency evaluation test required for all nurse aides who wish to become certified
• to keep a record of all those certified as a nurse aide
• to maintain and update records of client abuse, neglect or misappropriation of patient property
• to periodically renew the registration for a nurse aide
• to reimburse facilities or nurse aide students for costs associated with nurse aide training and testing programs

To be in the list of the urse aide registry you need to have fulfilled all the legal and ethical requirements of the state you want to work in, for example, you should have certified nursing assistant training and exam complted and you should have no charges of resident abuse , neglect or misconduct. You  should timely update your credentials on the registry. This is important to you as well because you will be recieving the important documents through your information on the registry.
The renewal forms of your licesne and related will be sent to you on the address you have mentioned on the registry.  The nurse aide registry is responsible of issuing a duplicate of your nurse aide certificate in case if its stolen or lost. So make sure you have your details provided to the nurse aide registry and keep it updated always, as a responsible certified nurse aide.