CNA Training

[WldChrry]

I am currently in the military, but only have a couple months left. Ultimately, I want to get into an LPN program in January or August of 2010 and then do an LPN to RN bridge program to become and RN. In the meantime however, I was thinking of taking a CNA course. It is twice a week in the evenings from 5pm-10pm, with two Saturday clinicals. All together, it is 6 weeks long. My question is, being that I work full time in the military right now....7am to 5pm four-five days a week, do you think that it is feasible to take a CNA course while I am still in the military, or should I wait til I get out? How hard was your training, and what did it entail?

[NursinginProgress]

Congratulations on finding your career track! As far as working and going to school should depend upon how well you are with additional stress and focus. I'd really weigh my options out. But on the other hand, CNA Training differs from program to program, but in general it's fairly easy. It becomes critical and more challenging as you go up the Nursing chain of education.

CNA training is an entry-level course that prepares students for the State Nurse Assistant certification examination. These courses includes classroom instruction and clinical practicum in general basic medical knowledge and skill. Interpersonal skills, communication, safety, asepsis, weights and measurements, resident care skills, nutrition, rehabilitative nursing, vital signs, assessment data collection and emergency procedures are integrated throughout.

I manage to find it off the site of the school I went to when I obtained my CNA training. Hope this helps!

Good luck & Happy Nursing!!

[foreverLaur]

My training was like yours. Almost everyone in the class had full-time day jobs and just came to campus two nights a week after work. Nobody had a problem with it. The course was really simple and very straight forward and mostly common sense.

I had little to no outside studying and I did other homework during class (when we weren't in lab).

I think you will definitely be fine. It is a very easy and straight forward class, I thought.

I am now working as a patient care assistant at a hospital and only had 5 days of training and it is going really really well.