Skills Evaluation Information

Program Director & Instructor Skills Evaluation Information

Required Skills Evaluation 

• To meet the CNA Skills Evaluation requirement to register a student as a CNA, the Board developed a pool of 22 skills, a student is randomly assigned 4 of the skills that an RN Skills Evaluator must use to evaluate the student.
  • The 4 skills are randomly assigned by the Board based on the month and day of a CNA Applicant's birth. 
  • RN Skills Evaluator Qualifications: the Program Director is responsible to appoint the RN Skills Evaluator who must be an actively licensed RN with a minimum of one year of licensed nursing experience caring for older adults or the chronically ill of any age. The DON in the nursing facility is not eligible.
• To conduct the student's evaluation, the RN Skills Evaluator(s) must use the Board's forms.
  • The forms are similar to the skills checklists found in Hartman’s Nurse Assistant Care: Long-Term Care, 5th ed. Workbook. 
  • The Board-approved Program Director will be provided access to print the forms, see below, and must provide the forms to the RN Skills Evaluator(s). 
• The RN Skills Evaluator uses the forms to evaluate the student during the NATP skills lab or at the end of the 75-hour NATP. 
• After the forms are completed, the Program Director must email all 4 of the forms along with the student's NATP Completion Verification Form to the BON at SDUAP@state.sd.us.
  • If the Program Director delegates the task of emailing the forms to another individual, the Program Director must also be included / cc'd on the email.

See Initial CNA Registration Requirements

Request to Access the Skills Checklist Forms

• A Program Director may request to access the forms:
  • Prior to requesting, ensure that your NATP requires a skills lab and that you have an assigned RN Skills Evaluator. Click Here to Request Access to Forms 
  • Allow 5 business days; the Board will send an email with sign-in instructions to the Program Director.
  • After receiving the sign-in instructions, Click Here to Access Skills Evaluation Checklist Forms