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I am taking my CNA test through Red Cross in Southern California in about 2 days. Any tips would be helpful! Are we allowed to familiarize ourselves with the equipments and supplies before we begin the test? I am actually challenging the exam so I have not worked with the actual equipments before or in quite awhile. Also, do we actually have to figure out which supplies we need to gather for each skills or are they laid out separately for each of the skills?

Good luck! Really use that time between the written and skills part to review. And if you're 2nd, you get to witness your partner which may be helpful too.

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When in doubt...just get it anyway. :D

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Thank you for the help! Will be taking my test tomorrow and I hope I pass!

Well...how did it go?

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How did the exam and skills go. I hope all as well I take my exam and skills next month. I was wondering about the written part. What was the main topic like was the questions more on infection control and safety?.

-Please let us know cant wait to hear back from you :)

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There should be a practice test online. The written is fairly easy. There's isn't really main part, unless it's different everywhere. They try to cover every topic that you went over in class. I'd worry more about the skills! :D Good luck to you as well! :)

Yes, OP, how did you do?!

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Well..I actually did not pass my skills portion because I was more than 8 mmHg off for the blood pressure. After taking my partner's BP, I asked her what her usual blood pressure was because I got a pretty high BP for her, 140/80 for the first try and 138/88 for the second try. She told me her normal BP is 110/80 which completely scared me because I was way off. I actually lowered the diastolic and systolic blood pressure by 2 mmHg for the second try because I was afraid that I heard wrong and because it was still abnormally high. The RN got 148/98 for the two tries, but I swear I heard her blood pressure even after 98. She said it was only peripheral sounds, but I am pretty sure it wasn't because the sounds were all consistent. I should not have changed the second reading to 138/88 and kept it at 140/90 because I would have been within range. I know that people's blood pressure go up when they are nervous, but how could it possibly go up about 40 mmHg? I hate how we are judged based on another another RN's findings because they are human and they also prone to errors..

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For the written part, there were a variety of questions. I studied for that part by doing a lot of practice questions which I found online.

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Well..I actually did not pass my skills portion because I was more than 8 mmHg off for the blood pressure. After taking my partner's BP, I asked her what her usual blood pressure was because I got a pretty high BP for her, 140/80 for the first try and 138/88 for the second try. She told me her normal BP is 110/80 which completely scared me because I was way off. I actually lowered the diastolic and systolic blood pressure by 2 mmHg for the second try because I was afraid that I heard wrong and because it was still abnormally high. The RN got 148/98 for the two tries, but I swear I heard her blood pressure even after 98. She said it was only peripheral sounds, but I am pretty sure it wasn't because the sounds were all consistent. I should not have changed the second reading to 138/88 and kept it at 140/90 because I would have been within range. I know that people's blood pressure go up when they are nervous, but how could it possibly go up about 40 mmHg? I hate how we are judged based on another another RN's findings because they are human and they also prone to errors..

Hey lady thank u for sharing your experience with us. You have two more try's and I know you got this and will pass your next time. I'm not sure why I'm so freaked out about the written test. I guess because when I take practice test online there are things that we didn't review in the book BUT, we got this :).

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My nursing school start next January. However, I was offered a job at a rehabilitation hospital, but they require me to have CNA license or at least finish my first semester of nursing (it's state law and they can't make exception). The nurse manager that I had talked to suggested that I should get the license which gonna take about a month or so. It will be quicker rather than waiting half a year to step foot in the work force. They will reimburse my education and have flexible schedule that will fit my schooling. Everything sounds good but I don't want to go through the CNA traning+test+background check again (I already did my background check for nursing school but they require me to start it over?!?!!!). HELP! any advice helps! I've just done with the Hesi and got an 86 overall, I'm employed and go to school full time. It is hard to take on another test right now. What should I do? Thanks!

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