Active Nursing Assistant Training of Clear Lake is a career school founded by Brenda Manning in July 2014. Brenda Manning has been a nurse since 1998, and has vast clinical experience in many fields of nursing. Prior to 1998, her high school vocational instructor inspired her to teach others the trade of nursing. In 1991, Brenda Manning became a nursing assistant, an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) and then an RN (Registered Nurse). Now, after many years of providing bedside nursing in hospitals, in private homes and in skilled nursing units, Brenda Manning, MSN,RN decided to make teaching and business ownership her full-time job.