Nursing Students General Students
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You enter the nursing program? It seems that it goes both ways - some schools require you to have the course or certification as a prereq, and some of them complete it in the first semester of the nursing course. Our school requires it as a prereq, and I think it's a really good idea. I think that doing the CNA coursework and clinicals beforehand is a good way of weeding out the people who maybe can't handle the work, or maybe had a rose-colored idea of what nursing is REALLY like. Nothing like having your first direct experience with decubes and flushing a Foley (and getting slime on your hands) to make you decide on a different line of work.
It also seems that it would really give you an edge up when starting your nursing classes, because so many of your course competencies in first semester is stuff that you already learned as a CNA.