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just accepted into CNA program... help?
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Posted about 5 years ago Hey everybody (sorry I haven't been online much, my laptop got stolen at the library while I was working on a paper)... I've just been accepted into an eight-week CNA class at my local hospital. I'm currently taking my prerequisites for nursing school, and was just wondering if anyone else has done the same thing? Is being a CNA relevant to being an RN? I know CNAs can't dispense medications or anything like that, but I thought working in the health-care field while I'm getting my degree would be more useful than being a waitress or a barista for the next two and a half years!!! Any advice, comments, etc. would be super helpful! Thanks! |
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| Posted about 5 years ago HEY, I just wanted to tell you, the class is a breeze. i don't know where your from but here in nj we can take the class in 3weeks. through a agency. I have been doing cna work for a few years now and have experience alot of stuff but i do in home work. I am sure as a rn it will be a whole lot rougher then a cna but we all have different titles and are expected to do different things. cna is bottom of the chain so keep working your way up. good luck!!!! and yes you will get alot of experience being a cna and learn as much as you can from the different rns you will work with, an ask question. knowledge really is power out in the world. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Being a CNA first will certainly help you in being a nurse. First off it will help you to be familiar with a health care setting whenever you do start school and you want be so intimidated. Also I feel that if you work as a CNA first before being a nurse, you will make a better nurse. I worked as a CNA prn while I was in school. As a CNA I could tell the diffence in the nurses that worked as a CNA and the ones that didn't. Also if you worked as a CNA, when you become a nurse you will appreciate your CNA alot more. CNA's are the eyes and ears of the nurses and I don't know what I would do without my CNA's. Kudos to all the CNA's out there |
