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 ...
Under state and federal law, all individuals who face criminal charges must be. mentally competent to help in their defense. By definition, an individual who is incompetent to stand. trial (IST) lacks the mental competency required to participate in legal proceedings. In California, there is a monthly statewide waitlist that averages between 200 and 300 individuals alleged to have.