The Mississippi chapter that carries a certified nurse aide's name is about hearings. It states its own purpose as the procedural guidelines for the administrative hearing process that puts a finding against an aide on the state's Nurse Aide Registry.

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What the rule asks of everyone giving personal care

The personal care home rule sets 4 conditions on direct care staff. They're at least 18 years old. They carry verification that they aren't listed on the Mississippi Nurses Aide Abuse Registry. Training comes quarterly, on topics and issues related to the population being served in the licensed facility, and it's documented by a narrative of the content plus the signatures of those attending. And they're employed and on duty, awake and fully dressed to provide personal care to the residents.

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Does Mississippi issue a medication aide certificate?: Mississippi doesn't have one, and it isn't for want of trying. Four bills have been drafted to create the credential, and every one of them died in committee: SB 2800 in 2023, HB 1635 in 2024, SB 2860 the same year after it had passed the Senate, and HB 834 as recently as February 3, 2026. What the rules do say is who gives the dose meanwhile. In a personal care home, where a resident is unable to self-administer prescription medication, a licensed nurse must be present to administer it.
What puts a Mississippi nurse aide on the registry?: A finding. Any aide found to have abused, neglected, or misappropriated the property of a long-term care resident is placed on the Nurse Aide Registry, and the chapter's own definition runs the other way too: an aide is a certified nurse aide who has met all requirements of the licensing agency and whose name appears on the registry. Students and trainees don't sit outside it. For purposes of an alleged violation, a student or trainee nurse aide is considered under the same guidelines as an aide.
Did Mississippi move nurse aide certification to its Board of Nursing?: It didn't, and the date attached to that story belongs to a bill that died. HB 1051 was filed in the 2025 session to create a new code section moving certification from the State Department of Health to the Mississippi Board of Nursing, and the Legislature's bill status system records it dead in committee on February 4, 2025. Its final line, which never took effect, is where July 1, 2026 comes from: the act would have taken effect from and after that day had it passed. Three more bills were drafted the same way and met the same end, HB 794 in 2023, HB 1682 in 2024 and HB 1415 alongside HB 1051 in 2025. The section all 4 aimed to create was never enacted, and the standards for certified nurse aides are still published by the State Department of Health, the agency behind a Mississippi nursing assistant job.