Hawaii CNA Registry

How to Look Up a Hawaii CNA License

This section is the mechanics: where the search is, what to type into it, and how to read what comes back.

Hawaii keeps its nurse aide records at registry.prometric.com. The search is public, so you can check your own record or a candidate's record without an account and without paying.

1. Open the Hawaii registry search

   Go to registry.prometric.com and use the Nurse Aide Search panel. The search takes a security check, cleared once per visit, then either up to twelve Certificate #s at once or an exact First Name and Last Name, with Middle Name and Date Of Birth optional. No login, no account, no fee.

2. Enter your details as the registry recorded them

   Use the name from the time of testing, and fill in every box the panel asks for. If it offers a certificate number box, use that as well: the number is unique to one person and a name is not.

3. Match the record to the person

   Check every identifying detail the result shows, not just the name. This search matches both names exactly, so a shortened first name, a former name or a typo returns nothing rather than a close result.

4. Read the record, not just the listing

   Open the record itself. Appearing on the registry is not the same as being current, so read what the record says about standing, whether that is a status, an expiry date, or both. The results table shows Name, First Name, Last Name, Middle Name, Findings, Original Cert Date, Expiration Date, County, City.

5. Save a dated copy of the result

   Print to PDF or screenshot the page showing the name, certificate number, what the record says about standing, and the date you checked. Employers and agencies usually want that record on file.

How to find your certificate number

Where a search takes the number, it narrows the result to one person in a way a name may not. If you have lost it, it is on any of these.

• Your certificate or wallet card, if your state issued one after the skills test
• Your employer's personnel file, because facilities record it when they verify you at hire
• The registry, on (800) 967-1200, if none of the above works

Why Your Hawaii CNA License Is Not Showing on the Registry

How to Verify a CNA License in Hawaii

This section is what the result proves: what a record is evidence of, what to save as your copy of it, and what it means for you specifically. The search itself is the same for everyone.

Verifying your own license after finishing training

Look yourself up at registry.prometric.com once your testing entity has filed your results. Allow at least 30 days before you treat a missing record as a problem. Save a dated copy of the record, because most employers ask for proof at offer stage rather than checking themselves.

Verifying your license after transferring from another state

A certification held in another state does not appear in Hawaii until reciprocity is processed. Until a Hawaii record exists, employers here cannot verify you, and your out-of-state record is the only proof you have. See transferring a license to Hawaii for the application route, then verify the new record the same way.

Verifying someone else's license (for employers)

Federal rules require a facility to check the registry before it lets someone work as a nurse aide. The record carries two things: the certification status, and any substantiated finding of abuse, neglect, or misappropriation of resident's property the state has recorded against that person. Read both, because someone can be listed and still carry a finding that bars employment. The record only covers Hawaii, so if a candidate has worked elsewhere, search that state's registry too.

How to Renew Your Hawaii CNA License

Renewal in Hawaii is yours to file. You report your own qualifying work to the registry, and the record does not update until you do, however long you have been working.

1. Work at least 8 hours in a qualifying role

   The hours must be paid nursing or nursing-related duties inside the 24 months before your record lapses. Unpaid placements and volunteer shifts do not count. If the work was in another state, ask the registry whether it counts before you rely on it, because states differ.

2. File the report yourself

   You submit it, not your employer, through the state's system, Hawaii Nurse Aide Registry Recertification Form, mailed to Prometric. The record does not update until you do, so file before it lapses. Your employer completes and signs section 2 before you mail it, so the form cannot go in with section 1 alone.

   Do it while you still work there. Whatever the registry asks for, it is harder to get from a former employer.

3. Check the record, and read the expiry date

   Look yourself up at registry.prometric.com about 30 days after the report was filed. Being listed on its own is not enough, because the previous period may still be running. The expiry date is what tells you the new period has actually started.

4. Fix a missing report before it lapses

   If the hours were worked but never reported, that is correctable, and it is far easier to correct while the record is still active. Contact the registry on (800) 967-1200 or HICNA@prometric.com and ask what they will accept as evidence of the work.

5. Keep your own dated copy

   Save the record showing the new expiry date. If a report is ever missed, that copy is what you give a new employer while the registry corrects it.

How to Reinstate a Lapsed Hawaii CNA License

If 24 months pass with no qualifying work, the record stops being active. What it takes to come back depends on which of these you are.

How to Get on the Hawaii CNA Registry

In Hawaii you do not file a registry application yourself. You train, you test, and your testing entity sends the application and results to the registry.

1. Meet the basic requirements

   You must be at least 18. Training providers may set their own requirements on top of that.

2. Complete an approved 100-hour course

   Train with a provider approved in Hawaii. Our CNA program directory does not cover Hawaii yet, so start from the state's own approved-provider list.

3. Pass the written and skills tests

   A knowledge test needing a score of 70 per cent, and a skills evaluation of five randomly selected tasks, all of which must be performed successfully. The knowledge test can be taken orally instead of in writing if you ask, which is a federal right in every state and is worth knowing if reading is difficult for you or English is not your first language.

   If a facility has already hired you, both tests have to be passed within four months of your hire date. Our free CNA practice tests cover the same knowledge areas as the written test, and the free CNA skills course walks through the skills evaluation itself.

   Testing costs are set by the testing entity rather than the state, so ask your provider what theirs are.

4. Let your testing entity file the results

   The testing entity sends your application and results straight to the registry. There is nothing for you to submit.

5. Check that you appear on the registry

   Allow at least 30 days, then look yourself up at registry.prometric.com before you contact the registry.

Hawaii CNA Registry Contact Information

Hawaii CNA Requirements at a Glance

Transferring a CNA License To or From Hawaii (Reciprocity)

Reciprocity is how an active certification held in one state becomes a certification in another. It usually avoids retesting, but only while your current certification is in good standing. A lapsed or flagged record cannot transfer.

Hawaii CNA Training Programs

The steps above are the whole route onto the registry. The one thing that comes before them is an approved 100-hour program, because you cannot sit the exam without completing one.

If you want to prepare before you enrol, our free CNA skills course covers the material the program and the skills test are built on.

Hawaii CNA Registry FAQ

Look Up a CNA License in Another State

Every state runs its own registry, and a certification is only verifiable in the state that issued it. Pick a state to see its portal, its status vocabulary and its renewal rules.