Nursing Assistant Certification first issued in 2017

1,875 of Washington’s 59,078 active nursing assistant certification credentials — 3.2% of them — were first issued in 2017.

The 2017 intake, and where it stands now

These 1,875 people were first credentialled as nursing assistant certification during 2017 and are still active today. A first-issue year is the closest thing this register has to a start date: it says when the Department first recognised someone in this role, not how long they have worked in health care.

5 of the 1,875 active credentials in this group carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.3% — and 1 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

1,875 credentials of this type were first issued in 2017. 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.

Who they are

This is a slice of a bigger group: all 59,078 nursing assistant certification credentials, and what a certification is.

Other groups of a similar size

• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification — 2013 1,988
• Nursing Assistant Certification — 2018 1,976
• Registered Nurse License — 2006 1,969
• Physician And Surgeon License — 2025 1,966
• Pharmacy Assistant License — 2026 1,962
• Physician And Surgeon License — 2024 1,913
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification — 2026 1,854
• Pharmacy Assistant License — 2024 1,823
• Nursing Assistant Certification — 2015 1,788
• Nursing Assistant Certification — 2016 1,777
• Nursing Assistant Registration — 2023 1,774