Hello to all current and future CNAs!
I'm new to THIS forum, however I'm always using the allnurses Pre-Nursing Student forum for help with my schooling! I'm a pre-nursing student in California, applying for nursing school for spring 2010. To gain hospital experience (you get extra points at most schools if you have your CNA already), I enrolled in a CNA course in December '08. I graduated early February '09 and was scheduled to take my CNA exam a few weeks later. However, at the time I was finishing prerequisite classes for nursing school and didn't have the time to study for a CNA test, so I postponed it and planned on taking it later. I continued to postpone it...and to this day I haven't taken it.
Well, I'm scheduled to take my certification exam on July 19th. I'm TERRIFIED for the clinical portion. Really terrified. I should mention that the place I took my class at provided us with an AWFUL teacher. We didn't learn anything. She literally gave us the answers to the tests the day before we took them (READ us ALL the answers directly off the test itself--no joke) and NEVER had us learn our skills. The place we did our interns at had very crummy workers who didn't care about their patients and didn't care about whether they followed CNA skills properly or not. In fact, when we worked with them they would specifically tell us NOT to do what they did on our state board exam! It was that bad. So, needless to say, I never learned my skills. Since I'm pre-nursing, I know most of the book material so I'm not concerned about the written portion (I also took the online practice tests and passed those with ease), but I'm very, very nervous about my skills. I plan to start studying my skills on Monday and study every day until the test. It's just very difficult for me to be able to remember every single step for every single skill. I tried to study for it last time and got so overwhelmed that I decided to call it off! It's pathetic, really. And now I've built it up so much that I'm even MORE petrified of taking the test!!
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
CNA Exam Dilemma! Help!
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But it's all the steps involved before and after that are hard for me to memorize. Like when to put the bed up, when to put it down, which pillows to put first and in which order when turning....it just seems like SO MUCH and it's so specific!
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