

You may check your status online by searching the Illinois Health Care Worker Registry. Being an Illinois CNA is a condition that an individual must keep through their work efforts not through an issued document. Please note that Illinois does not issue any credentials, certificates or licenses to CNAs. Incomplete applications will be returned to the address provided. If you meet the requirements, you will be placed on the Illinois Health Care Worker Registry, which is the state’s registry for CNAs, otherwise, you will be sent written notification stating that you do not meet the requirements. The form authorizes the department to conduct a fingerprint-based criminal history records check after you have your fingerprints collected at one of the state approved vendors. Once the form is received by the Illinois Department of Public Health, they will send you a Livescan Request form by mail.

You submit the Out-of-State Nurse Aide Application to become an Illinois Certified Nurse Aide to Illinois Department of Public Health, Health Care Worker Registry.You must have no disqualifying convictions on the home state’s registry.You must have no administrative findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriations of property on your home state’s CNA registry or any other state’s CNA registry.You must have documentation of current registration from another state indicating requirements listed in the Code of Federal Regulations ( 42 CFR, Sections 483.151 and 483.152) have been met.To become a CNA in Illinois, if you have been deemed competent on another state’s registry for CNAs, you need to meet the following requirements:

There are a number of state and federal requirements individuals must meet prior to being listed on the registry as an Illinois CNA.
