so many skills, so little time!

achieve08 · Mar 08, 2008 10:11 PM

Hi Everyone,
Just a couple of thoughts about my current CNA course here...

There seems to be SO much to learn, and so little time! Our class is about 3 weeks of classroom and a week of clinicals (classroom and clinical days are 4 hours per day). We have "lab" days two to three times per week. Most of our other time is spent viewing videos of skills or listening to "lectures" which are seldom related to what we will actually be dealing with (we get off-topic a LOT). Our book is EXTREMELY basic (it's a thin paperback). I'm getting so nervous about the skills test! I can't seem to remember the order of all the ROM exercises, or the bedbath things. The videos we've watched are almost archaic, too - we watched one about using MERCURY thermometers!

Has anyone else survived this kind of class to become a CNA?

TIA,
Achieve08

so many skills, so little time!

so many skills, so little time!

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