Nursing Assistant Certification

Washington State holds 59,078 active credentials of this type — 10.7% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Nursing Assistant Certification is a Certification — a credential the state grants against a defined standard. It is what Washington uses where the work is real and regulated but typically carried out under someone else’s direction rather than independently.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 145,796 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a certification differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 59,078 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Nursing Assistant Certification credential still active in Washington was first issued in 1989. 21,076 of the 59,078 were issued in 2024 or later — 35.7% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

102 of the 59,078 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.2% — and 81 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

59,078 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 59,078 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Nursing Assistant Certification expiring in 2026 — 19,649
• Nursing Assistant Certification expiring in 2027 — 39,389
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1990 — 445
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1991 — 323
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1992 — 294
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1993 — 350
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1994 — 326
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1995 — 382
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1996 — 376
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1997 — 373
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1998 — 420
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 1999 — 374
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2000 — 437
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2001 — 535
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2002 — 706
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2003 — 651
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2004 — 757
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2005 — 763
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2006 — 777
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2007 — 742
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2008 — 637
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2009 — 967
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2010 — 1,201
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2011 — 1,181
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2012 — 1,347
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2013 — 1,507
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2014 — 1,741
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2015 — 1,788
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2016 — 1,777
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2017 — 1,875
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2018 — 1,976
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2019 — 2,172
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2020 — 1,188
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2021 — 2,260
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2022 — 3,098
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2023 — 4,232
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2024 — 7,278
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2025 — 8,474
• Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2026 — 5,324

Credentials of a similar size

• Registered Nurse License 106,983
• Physician And Surgeon License 31,099
• Nursing Assistant Registration 25,386
• Medical Assistant Certification 20,392
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License 18,863
• Dental Assistant Registration 17,158
• Emergency Medical Technician Certification 14,905
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Mental Health Counselor License 12,609
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.