Becoming C.N.A.....what kind of wages and best places to work...lexington/richmond...

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I am attending a C.N.A. class in december and start in Spring 2009 in my A.S.N. at EKU....What kind of wages are available in the Lexington/Richmond area?

Where are the best facilities to work for? Tuition reimbursment? Any places I should steer clear of?

Any and all comment's are appreciated!!! Can't wait to hear from ya:wink2:

P.S. I would love to work on the weekends....anyplaces that offer special weekend shift whether they're overnight, one that i might actually stay there all weekend??

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I'm really clueless about all this and i figuered this would be the most appropriate forum to ask these kinds of questions...

I thank anyone who might be able to shed some insight to me on this....

Thanks again :wink2:

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I personally can't help you, sorry. Give it a day or two and someone will respond with some helpful info. In the meantime did you try doing a search in the forum for a similar topic?

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:cry:I did, i went through all 10 pages it would let me go; all the way past to 2004:cry:

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anyone please???

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I'm not sure about this either. I'm currently in a CNA class, but we haven't really discussed where to work. I have a friend who has a CNA license and works as an ER tech at UK, He loves it and the benefits are great. I'm hoping I can get a similar job when I'm get my license. I think he makes $11.00 or so per hour.

I've seen ER tech jobs listed on UK's job site thatsays they pay between $10-$14 / hour. You might try looking there.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Yeah, you've got a lot of questions that can really best be answered by the individual places that you go to apply. I would second the UK suggestion; I've always heard that it's a pretty decent place to work.

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Specializes in i pull sheaths :).

I work at St. Joseph's Main in Lexington and a second semester ADN nursing student at EKU. I have worked at SJH on nights for a year and am a CTVU SWAN (nursing assistant/ward secretary). They have a really good tuition reimbursement program here and others that help you while you are in school. I love my job! If you have any other questions, let me know.

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anyone else???

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I worked as a CNA in the Middlesboro area. Thats not too far from where you are talking about. They started me out at 8something. I was working in a nursing home not in a hospitol. I know they pay a lot more up there where you are talking about :-)

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In Versailles my wife worked at Taylor Manor, and she LOVED IT there! She also really liked Grant Manor, but that's up in Williamstown. It's a bunch of nuns, but she really liked it there. She is an LPN. I'm trying to either come up with the funds to take the CNA course, or see if I can find a LTC facility within 30 minutes of Georgetown that will pay for the course.

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I recently started working in the prn pool at UK- Good Samaritan and I LOVE it! The wages are a lot more than I was expecting, and they work around my class schedule (I'm in nursing school). It is great. They have already offered to pay for my ADN (I'm currently in lpn school). Of course, that would mean signing a contract to work for them for so many years.

Anyway, I suggest you try there. I know they are trying to hire a lot of CNAs so they can stop using agency.

Good luck!

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