Anyone have/had to buy their own...

These were supplied by the facilities that I worked at. One of them issued a gait belt to newly hired CNAs, to be turned in when employment ended, the others provided gait belts on the floor.

We werent required to buy our own gait belts. When we got to the skills portion of the class we all just used the practice gait belt. The only thing we were responsible for buying was a bp cuff &stethoscope.

Nope. Just had to have a stethoscope before clinicals, even though I never used it during clinicals, lol. The facility that I work at keeps gate belts in a supply drawer.

When I went to CNA training we got ours issued to us by the school. I still have mine and it has helped a lot

at our school they had like 12 gait belts that we only used in class to practice with,we had to purchase a stethescope and bp cuff though.

There is a good case to have this, along with a BP cuff and
stethescope if you are doing HH and visiting patients at different sites.

Other than that, most facilities provide all of that.