What do you look for in CNA classroom?

[Bandages]

As a student stepping into the health field as a CNA, what do you look for? What keeps you awake in class? What did you like best as instructors taught? What didn't you like? What teaching style do you prefer? Visual? Tactile? Auditory?

As a CNA instructor I've been told from a few students from the few times I have taught that my teaching skills are clear and to the point. I'd like to know what else can I do to provide a better learning environment? This is for any students just stepping into the healthcare field. This is also for nurses or anyone in the health care field. We all have been students once right? Share your experiences. what you liked and don't like.

[i_love_patient_care]

I had a really awesome RN who ran the school I went to. She was very experienced (I think over 25 years of nursing experience), and taught us how to be well-informed, helpful CNAs. We not only learned what we needed to know to pass the exam/practical, but how to truly be a good team player and respectful of nurses in the workplace. I think what kept me awake in class, and paying attention, was her stories from real-life experiences of why we do things the way we were being taught. Teachers who are passionate about what they are teaching are the best. thank you for being a teacher

[OhioTry]

The practical skills should be taught hands-on. Ideally these should include skills that will be needed on the job whether or not they are on the state test. I am very glad that our class got taught how to take a manual blood pressure in addition to the skills on the state exam. I wish we had been given hands on experience in using a hoyer lift, and in peri-care on a male as well as a female. Please explain the difference between giving peri-care to an uncircumcised and circumcised male.

[MsJP'14]

Hands on learning is the most important aspect for me. My course was 4 weeks long including a 1 week clinical. It was a complete joke! Although the facility has an amazing simulated lab, we barely used anything! At the end of four weeks, we knew nothing, and we were encouraged to go on youtube and supplement our education! To make matters worse, they made it difficult to sit for the exam, and I ended up having to challenge the exam in order to get my certification. The biggest help was the textbook, because it set the foundation, we read from it daily in class, and completed the activities. However, I undoubtedly passed the clinical aspect of the exam based on youtube, and the prometric clinical skills checklist. It helped me focus on what the assessor would be looking for. I don't think a student should end their course feeling like they should have never paid the tuition and should've simply challenged the exam in the first place.