Originally Posted by shock-me-sane
I've worked as a student nurse assistant and it may be completely different from what you are going to be doing. But I worked as a patient care assistant. A CNA without a CNA license.
I am guessing that it will be similar for you? Most of those student programs are after fundamentals so you can do CNA work.
Did you not get a job description before you applied?
I will find out more on Monday when I go in and speak with her. The job description was extremely vague. It basically said "Will work in the pediatrics department under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse." And then it went on to talk about customer service, accountability, performance improvements, etc... And then it says the applicant will perform those "...job functions related to the indicated position." Very vague as you can see.
I spoke with a friend who works in L&D at the same hospital and she said she basically does everything she would do in clinicals and much more. She said the only thing she can't do in L&D is IV pushes and checking dilation of someone in labor. Otherwise they let her do a lot of duties and many duties out of her scope of practice, with direct supervision of course.
But considering I am only a 1st semester student, I would assume that I would be doing a lot of CNA work on the peds flood because I am obviously very inexperienced. But I think the experience will be well worth it and the pay is absolutely amazing (compared to what I make now).
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