Becoming a cna

I personally would never work in a nursing home. If you want to learn how to feed, bathe, diaper the old folks...then nursing home it is. But for more experience, work in a hospital setting where you will see more and be allowed to have more hands on.

Thank you kindly Stacy for your reply. Is it hard to get a position as cna in the hospital? I ask because I have read other people's threads and that's what it seems like. I already have experience bathing, feeding, and lifting patients. Even a few months experience with alzhiemer's patients. However, that experience was over 10 years ago when I was working with an assisted living facility.

I look forward to you response.

Thank you

I am in the process of getting certified as a cna as well in p.g county. I was just thinking to myself today if hospitals hire cna that has no prior experience. i went to take pre entrance exam at u.d.c for the lpn program that starts in september i am waiting for the result for that one as well. please let me know if you find some hospitals that cnas with no experience please.

I started working as a CNA 3 years before I started nursing school. I started in nursing home/ assisted living home, where I also became a medication tech which I think gave me a great upper hand when it came to knowing the medications once I was in nursing school. After I started nursing school, the whole first semester was CNA work and being in nursing homes, which again gave me an upper hand because I had been doing that for years. I did eventually start working as a CNA in the hospital where I moved up to a LPN last summer. Working in a hospital gave me a great deal of experiance, the nurses were great and helped me to understand more of what they were doing plus I had the chance to see and do a whole lot more than in the nursing home. I think getting into a hospital as a CNA gives you a better experiance and a foot in the door for when you are a nurse. Dont get me wrong, I loved my time in the nursing homes but I love the hospital even more.