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 ...
Declaring an individual incompetent means the person is unable to make decisions or take care of himself without the intervention of a guardian. This is normally done in cases of elderly family members who suffer dementia or mentally challenged adults and children. In Georgia there are certain guidelines for having an individual declared incompetent. Before you can do this, you must be a relative of the person or hold legal power of attorney. Seek medical evaluation of your loved one.