Department of Health. Changes to Nursing Home Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) Competency Exam Program. Over the past year, the Department of Health has worked in collaboration with Prometric and key stakeholders to identify and implement improvements to the New York State Nurse Aide (CNA) Competency Evaluation.
An individual is defined as mentally incompetent if he is manifestly psychotic or otherwise of unsound mind, either consistently or sporadically, by reason of mental defect, among which are retardation, schizophrenia or other acute hallucinatory and delusory defects of mind, certain types of epilepsy and other seizure disorders which render the ...
Lack of legal ability to do something, especially to testify or stand trial. Also known as incompetency. May be caused by various types of disqualification, inability, or unfitness. Someone who is judged incompetent by means of a formal hearing may have a guardian appointed by the court. Sometimes the sole disqualification is age; see minority. 2.