Nursing Assistant

Westchester College of Nursing and Allied Health · Los Angeles, CA

Cost: $2,800
Length: 6 weeks
Working 6 months later: 70%

Program names, program descriptions and occupation titles appear here in English, because that is the only language the federal and state records publish them in. Everything else on this page is translated.

What this work is

This describes the jobs people do, not the classes this program teaches. It comes from the U.S. Department of Labor, which asks people already doing the work. The Department publishes it in English only, so the job names and the sentences below stay in English on this page.

Nursing Assistants

Job ads may call this: Nurses' Aide · Nursing Aide · Nursing Assistant · Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Some of what people in this job do. The Department rates how important each one is, and they appear in that order.

Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation.

Show 2 more things this job involves

Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.

What it costs and how long it takes

Cost: $2,800
Length: 6 weeks
People enrolled: 70

This program provides in-person instruction only.

What happened to people who took this

Finished the program: 92%Based on 83 peopleTypical California program: 85% of 1,951 reportingThat median pools every California program that reported this measure, whatever its length, credential, or field, and leaves out the ones that reported nothing. It is a reference point, not a rating of this program.
Working 6 months later: 70%Typical California program: 69% of 1,690 reportingThat median pools every California program that reported this measure, whatever its length, credential, or field, and leaves out the ones that reported nothing. It is a reference point, not a rating of this program.
Earnings in one quarter after: $7,268A single quarter of earnings, roughly three months, not a yearly salary. Do not compare it directly with the yearly pay shown for the occupation.Typical California program: $10,900 of 1,339 reportingThat median pools every California program that reported this measure, whatever its length, credential, or field, and leaves out the ones that reported nothing. It is a reference point, not a rating of this program.

What the job pays, and who gets hired

Where California publishes a separate figure for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County), it appears beneath the statewide one. Statewide stays the headline: people who train here do not necessarily work here.

Nursing Assistants

Typical pay in California: $48,836per yearLos Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD: $47,456
Projected openings: 172,680Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD: 49,200
Projected change: +10.3%
Usually needs: Postsecondary non-degree award

Getting in

Experience needed first: None
Training after you are hired: None

No earlier job experience is expected, and new hires are not put through a long training period. For work like this, a program is usually the way in.

These are the federal government's answers for the occupation, not rules this provider sets. California publishes the same two answers for every one of these jobs.

What people in this job actually studied

Most common: High school diploma — 37% of the people doing this work.

California says this job usually needs: Postsecondary non-degree award. That is not one of the steps below, so there is no way to count how many people meet it.

No high school diploma: 10%
High school diploma: 37%
Started college, no degree: 31%
Two-year degree: 11%
Four-year degree: 8%
Master's degree: 2%
Doctorate or professional degree: 0.6%

This counts people already doing this job, across the whole United States. Every other figure on this page is California's, and the federal government publishes no state version of this one. It is what people happen to have, not a rule about who gets hired. A small row does not mean you would be turned away, and a large one is not a promise of a job. It is also measured on a different scale from “Usually needs” above, so the two cannot be subtracted from one another.

Program details

This is an entry level as a Health Care Worker. This program is designed with classroom theory of 60 clock hours and clinical practice of 100 clock hours. Students are quizzed daily on theory modules, which aides in the preparation for the state board examination, following the completion of required hours. The program consists of six weeks. Students are accompanied with supervision and training by experienced and qualified Licensed Vocational Nurses and/or Registered Nurses. Students are assisted with job placement during and upon completion of program.

Someone else may be able to pay for this

This program was on California's Eligible Training Provider List when the state last reported it to the U.S. Department of Labor (2026-08-04). Programs on that list can be paid for through an Individual Training Account. Listings are renewed periodically and can lapse, so a program listed when the state last reported may not be listed today. Ask before you rely on it.

Federal training money under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act is paid through an Individual Training Account: an agreement between a local workforce board and a training provider, set up on behalf of one person. That money can only go to a provider on the state's Eligible Training Provider List, which is the list every program on this site comes from.

The rule: 20 CFR 680.300 — How are training services provided? · 20 CFR 680.410 — What is an eligible training provider? · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List

The place to ask is an America's Job Center of California

A comprehensive center is where all the required partner programs can be reached; an affiliate site offers some of them. California's Employment Development Department directs people to CareerOneStop's finder to locate one. Contacting a center before traveling is worth it — the state notes that its own staff are not physically present at every location.

The rule: 20 CFR 678.305 — What is a comprehensive one-stop center? · 20 CFR 678.310 — What is an affiliated site? · California EDD — Office Locator

South Bay One Stop Business and Career Center - InglewoodComprehensive center
Phone: 424-419-4343 Ext: 7
110 South La Brea AvenueLa Brea Place Building, 5th FloorInglewood, CA 90301about 2.9 miles away
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Open every other Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Has a veterans' representative
West LA WorkSource Center/ AJCCComprehensive center
Phone: 310-309-6000
5446 Sepulveda BoulevardCulver City, CA 90230about 3 miles away
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Has a veterans' representative
South Los Angeles - WorkSource CenterComprehensive center
Phone: 562-445-3673
5343 Crenshaw BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90043about 5 miles away
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm

Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Call before you travel: opening hours here are as the federal directory published them, and the state notes its own staff are not present at every location.

Find a center anywhere in California, and check what is on the list today:
CareerOneStop — American Job Center Finder (U.S. DOL) · California EDD — Office Locator · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List

Who can be served at all

California states the general criteria as three things: age, Selective Service registration where it applies, and authorization to work in the United States. Work authorization is checked when someone moves into a service that needs it, not at the door — career assessments, an employment plan, case management, basic skills and English instruction, help finishing work-authorization paperwork, and referrals for transport, childcare, food and housing are all listed as services a local area may deliver without verifying it first.

The rule: California EDD — WIOA Title I Eligibility Technical Assistance Guide (WSD24-04)

Say if you receive public assistance, are low income, or need basic skills help

For the adult funding stream, federal law requires priority to be given to recipients of public assistance, other low-income individuals, and individuals who are basic skills deficient. California instructs job center staff to work an explicit order: veterans and eligible spouses who are also in one of those groups, then the groups themselves, then other veterans and eligible spouses, then any populations the Governor or the local board has added, then everyone else. Priority does not exclude anyone else, and it does not apply to the dislocated worker stream. It only operates if the center is told, and California fixes a person's priority status at the moment eligibility is determined — so it is the first appointment that counts.

The rule: 20 CFR 680.600 — Priority for low-income adults and public assistance · 20 CFR 680.610 — Does the adult priority also apply to dislocated worker funds? · 20 CFR 1010.200 — Priority of service for veterans and eligible spouses · California EDD — Adult Program Priority of Service (WSD24-06)

Ask what else can be covered while you train

Supportive services — help with transport, child care and dependent care, and others — may be provided to people taking part in career or training services who cannot obtain them elsewhere. Adults who are unemployed, do not qualify for unemployment compensation, and are enrolled in training may be eligible for needs-related payments as well.

The rule: 20 CFR 680.900 — What are supportive services for adults? · 20 CFR 680.910 — When may supportive services be provided? · 20 CFR 680.940 — Eligibility for needs-related payments

The answer depends on the local area, and on the year

Once someone has been found eligible and has chosen a provider, the center must refer them and set up an account — unless the program has exhausted its training funds for the program year. How much an account is worth, which occupations a board will fund, what counts as employment that supports a person, and how priority is applied are all set locally, across California's 45 local workforce development areas. Meeting every rule here still does not secure a place. California's own guidance to job center staff says so plainly: WIOA is not an entitlement program, funding for it is not unlimited, and local boards offer services to eligible applicants when funding is available.

The rule: 20 CFR 680.340 — What are the requirements for consumer choice? · 20 CFR 680.310 — Can the duration and amount of ITAs be limited? · California EDD — WIOA Title I Eligibility Technical Assistance Guide (WSD24-04) · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List

What to ask before you commit

Questions for the America's Job Center (9)

Which funding stream would I be served under — adult, dislocated worker, or youth?
They are different pots with different rules. The statutory priority for public assistance recipients, low-income individuals and people who are basic skills deficient applies to adult funds only. Out-of-school youth aged 16 to 24 can be served by Individual Training Accounts from youth funds.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.600 — Priority for low-income adults and public assistance · 20 CFR 680.610 — Does the adult priority also apply to dislocated worker funds? · 20 CFR 681.550 — Are Individual Training Accounts permitted for youth?
Is this occupation one this local area funds training for?
The program has to be linked to employment opportunities in the local area or one the person will commute to, and boards give priority to credentials aligned with in-demand sectors. A program can be on the state list and still not be one a particular board will pay for.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.210 — Who may receive training services? · 20 CFR 680.340 — What are the requirements for consumer choice?
What is the most this area will put into an Individual Training Account, and would that cover this program?
Caps and duration limits are local policy, not federal, so the same program can be fully funded in one county and partly funded in the next. A cap is also not necessarily the end of it: the rules allow someone to choose training that costs more than the maximum when other funds are available to make up the difference. Ask what the gap would be and what could close it.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.310 — Can the duration and amount of ITAs be limited? · 20 CFR 680.230 — Coordination of WIOA training funds and other grants
How does this area define employment that supports a person?
The determination turns on whether someone can reach self-sufficiency without training, and California requires each local board to set that threshold itself — at least the lower living standard income level for the area, and often higher. It is a local number, and it is the number the decision rests on.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.210 — Who may receive training services? · California EDD — WIOA Title I Eligibility Technical Assistance Guide (WSD24-04)
Can I use this for a program in another county, or another state?
Training outside the local area is allowed where the program is on the state list, and outside California where state and local policies permit — both subject to local procedure. Worth asking anywhere the nearest program is a long drive, which in this state is a lot of places.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.520 — May individuals choose providers outside the local area?
Are there training funds left for this program year?
The obligation to refer an eligible person and set up an account holds unless the program has exhausted its training funds for the year. That is the one answer a website can never know, and it decides everything.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.340 — What are the requirements for consumer choice?
What should I apply for first — a Pell Grant, or anything else?
WIOA funds are for people who cannot get grant assistance elsewhere or who need more than it covers, and centers must consider other sources first. Enrolling with a Pell application pending is allowed if arranged in advance.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.230 — Coordination of WIOA training funds and other grants
Can you help with transport, child care, or living costs while I train?
Supportive services and needs-related payments are separate from tuition, and are only available to people already taking part in career or training services who cannot get that help anywhere else. They are worth asking about in the same conversation, not a later one.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.900 — What are supportive services for adults? · 20 CFR 680.940 — Eligibility for needs-related payments
What should I bring, and how long does a determination take?
The determination rests on an interview, evaluation or assessment and career planning, and the center has to be able to document it. There is no federal minimum waiting period, so the answer is local and worth knowing before taking a day off work.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.220 — Are there particular career services an individual must receive before training?

Questions for the training provider (5)

Is this program on California's Eligible Training Provider List right now?
An Individual Training Account can only pay a provider on that list, and listings are granted per program rather than per school — a listed provider can have unlisted programs. Eligibility is also time-limited and renewed.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.410 — What is an eligible training provider? · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List
What does the price include, and what will I still have to buy — books, tools, uniforms, exam fees, license fees?
Providers report tuition and supplies to the state as separate figures and either can be missing, so the cost shown here may be a floor rather than a total. Exam and licensing fees are often outside both.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.490 — Performance and cost information providers submit
What exactly do I hold at the end, who issues it, and does an employer or a licensing board recognize it?
A program on the list has to lead to a credential, employment, or measurable progress toward one — but 'certificate of completion' from a school and a license a state board recognizes are very different things to be holding.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.420 — What is a “program of training services”?
If I stop partway through, what do I owe, and what happens to funding already paid?
An Individual Training Account is a payment agreement with the provider and may be paid in instalments, so who is owed what on a withdrawal is a question for the provider and the center together, before enrolling rather than after.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.300 — How are training services provided?
When does the next cohort start, and how many hours a week is it?
The schedule decides whether someone can keep working while training, and needs-related payments are only for people who are unemployed and already enrolled — so the timetable and the money question are the same question.
The rule: 20 CFR 680.940 — Eligibility for needs-related payments

Whether a person can have a program paid for is decided by their local workforce development board and the America's Job Center staff who interview them — not by this site, and not by the training provider. California has 45 local workforce development areas and each sets its own policies, so the answer can differ between two people in neighboring counties. Nothing here is a promise of funding or a determination of eligibility.

The rules cited here, and the state and federal sites linked to, are published in English.

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