Describe the CNA role, setting, credentials, and shifts. Makeform builds an application for experience, availability, references, and documents.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a care setting, adapt the requirements, or send an editable example into the Makeform builder.
Audience
CNA candidates applying to a skilled nursing facility
Format
Credential and rotating-shift application
Prompt size
395 chars
Example form structure
Credential and rotating-shift application
CNA credential number, state, and expiration
Long-term care experience and resident-care skills
Which shifts and weekends can you work?
Upload resume and credential documents
References and permission to contact
Suggested routing tags
Credential review
Interview shortlist
Availability mismatch
Separate credential number, state, and expiration so staff can review details without opening an attachment.
Step 1
Apply
candidate details, experience, and documents
Step 2
Review
credentials, requirements, and references
Step 3
Shortlist
qualified candidates routed to hiring staff
Step 4
Schedule
availability used to plan the next conversation
Built for care hiring
Ask every candidate for the same role-specific details while leaving room for context and documents.
Collect credential number, state, status, and expiration separately, with supporting uploads for staff review.
Ask about facility types, units, daily living, memory care, transfers, and related experience with selections plus an explanation.
Capture day, evening, night, weekend, holiday, per-diem, or full-time preferences in structured answers.
Adapt to the workplace
Choose a care environment, then change shifts, locations, and routing.
Collect long-term care experience, credentials, unit preference, rotating shifts, references, and documents.
Combine resident-care experience with situational questions and the opening's schedule.
Branch by service area, travel, transportation, language, and overnight preferences.
Ask for dates, notice, locations, unit history, and acknowledgment that availability is not an assignment.
Application workflow
Turn vacancy requirements into a published intake routed to the right reviewer.
Name the setting, schedule, locations, credentials, required experience, documents, and reviewer.
Add your shifts and units. Show travel or overnight questions only when relevant.
Share the form from a careers page, listing, email, post, or QR code for phone and computer access.
Send applications to the hiring inbox or workflow, tagged for credential review, availability, or interviews.
Application vs resume alone
A role-specific application captures comparable inputs while preserving resumes as context.
Field guide
Build around hiring decisions, omit unnecessary questions, explain document requests, and review wording before publishing.
Candidate profile
Collect name, email, phone, preferred contact method, location, and earliest start date without duplicating later work-history fields.
Credentials
Separate credential type, number, state, reported status, and expiration. Add an upload while keeping key details searchable.
Certifications
List role-related certifications, such as BLS or CPR, with issuer and expiration. Treat answers as candidate-provided information for review.
Care experience
Ask for recent employers and responsibilities, then use selections for settings, units, and tasks plus a short explanation.
Availability
Separate employment type from days and shifts. Include weekends, holidays, per-diem interest, and locations when relevant.
Documents and acknowledgments
Request a resume, references, and documents in labeled fields. Add reference-contact permission and an accuracy acknowledgment without promising employment.
Related tools
Pair the CNA application with tools for intake, documents, scheduling, availability, and onboarding.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for care facilities building an online CNA candidate intake.
Collect contact details, CNA credential number, state and expiration, certifications, care experience, work history, availability, start date, references, and a resume. Ask only for role-related information and have staff review candidate-reported credentials.
Yes. Add labeled uploads for a resume and relevant documents. Collect important dates and identifiers as fields so reviewers can scan submissions without opening every file. Explain each upload and configure access and retention before publishing.
Use separate groups for weekdays and day, evening, or night shifts. Add weekend, holiday, employment-type, start-date, and constraint fields. For home care, conditionally ask about service areas and travel.
Yes. Show home-care travel, memory-care experience, overnight availability, or unit skills only when relevant. This keeps the form manageable while collecting detail for each location, assignment, or shift.
No automatic verification should be implied. Collect credential number, state, reported status, expiration, and a document separately, then route the submission to staff for the facility's established review process.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses for generating, editing, publishing, and receiving applications. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Use the selected location, unit, or assignment type in your workflow. Notify the right inbox or app and tag submissions for credential review, availability, or interviews. Test routing before sharing.
Keep the application focused on interest and role fit. Move information needed only after selection into onboarding. This shortens the application and creates a clear handoff to new-hire intake.
Replace scattered resumes and emails.
