Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Jun 29, 2008 07:48 PM

by FutureNurse33702

Hi everyone!

I'm considering becoming a CNA for experience while I'm saving up to go back to school to become a nurse. I checked the FL Board of Nursing website for CNA courses, but the most updated list of schools they have is from 2006, and it looks like many of the courses in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater area are no longer in existence. Has any one recently taken CNA courses in the Tampa Bay area, and can you recommend a school or organization that offers them? PTEC only offers them in the daytime, and I need to do evening/weekend because I work full time.

Also, do employers care where you went for the CNA prep courses, or do they mainly just look at whether you're certified? Any luck getting evening/night work?

Any replies or advice would be very much appreciated!

FutureNurse33702 · Jun 30, 2008, 05:49 AM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

No one knows of any courses in the Tampa Bay area? This is concerning.

mantczak · Jul 01, 2008, 09:57 AM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Try Leary Tech. School 813 - 231 - 1907. You can also try Brewster and Erwin both are also Tech schools. All three are in Tampa. Personnaly I avoid the private schools as they are VERY expensive and I think you get just as good training at the Tech schools
Mary

erenamonichka · Jul 01, 2008, 07:09 PM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Originally Posted by FutureNurse33702

No one knows of any courses in the Tampa Bay area? This is concerning.

Check new papers so many CNA courses at nigth and on the weekend, i wnt to Medical Prep of Pinellas call them727-768-3633, the have nigth and weekend and only 250$ one week or 2 weeks program, also www.medicalprepofpinellasinc.com
Good luck, maybe this help

NurseDeb2B · Jul 02, 2008, 06:54 PM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

I am in the same boat as you - I have a FT job now but want to get the ball rolling on my CNA certificate to get some experience (and extra $$) before starting nursing school. I am taking the course at the Florida Medical Prep (St Pete area) for approx $250. There is also TampaBatCNA.com but this is about $650 and only during Mon & Tues during the day. I do not believe that the employers care where you went to school to obtain your CNA, as long as you went to classes. In Florida, you can challenge the test without going to classes but I think the employers look down on that because you really don't have the knowledge that you need to start with. Good luck and I hope this helped.

*aundrea543* · Jul 03, 2008, 08:14 AM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/cna/lst_training.pdf

you can try looking here

hope this helps and good luck

FutureNurse33702 · Jul 03, 2008, 11:00 AM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Jace,

That's the one I originally went to that hasn't been updated since 2006, and when I called, they said that they haven't updated it since then, so unfortunately alot of the information (at least in this area) is outdated.

I appreciate everyone's replies! I think I'm going to be taking the 2-weekend course they just posted at Florida Medical Prep in a couple weeks and then challenging the cert. test. Wish me luck!

sml1970 · Jul 03, 2008, 04:30 PM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Originally Posted by FutureNurse33702

Jace,

That's the one I originally went to that hasn't been updated since 2006, and when I called, they said that they haven't updated it since then, so unfortunately alot of the information (at least in this area) is outdated.

I appreciate everyone's replies! I think I'm going to be taking the 2-weekend course they just posted at Florida Medical Prep in a couple weeks and then challenging the cert. test. Wish me luck!

Hi

Please let me know how it is ,will you test with prometrcs??? I am in Fla. as well, about 40 min from tampabay. Im taking weekend only courses too.Hoping to test sometime in Aug.=]..

jswitch · Apr 16, 2009, 04:18 PM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

Hey,

I'm looking into that medical prep of pinellas course. Can someone who's taken it tell me how it went? Did you feel prepared for the CNA exam? Thanks!

NurseDeb2B · Apr 16, 2009, 05:41 PM

Re: Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

I attended the FL MEd Prep course last Aug and did the test/passed on Oct 4th. They give you a study manual the first day and go over some of the book. Be sure to read the entire book at home! There are a lot of questions on the test that the instructor does not cover in class. You will have a multiple choice test and a skills test. In all, I believe it was 21 skills that were learned and each skill can have on average of 10 steps that need to be done in that order and correctly. You also need to study those at home. I just pretended I had a patient in bed. I studied alone. I took the class 2 Sat's and 2 Sun's and was done. I had to wait about a month for the test so if you do not keep the skills fresh in your mind during the waiting period, you are sure to fail. Good luck!

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Tampa Bay CNA Courses - Evening and/or Weekend?

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