Do you think that nursing students need to work as a CNA or nurse aid while in school?

[LindseyPar]

Do you think it is necessary for nursing students to work as a CNA to gain experience before they graduate? And, (After graduating as an RN and applying to jobs-->) do hospitals look for experience on resumes or mostly at what your grades are? Would they hire someone with a 3.8 GPA over someone with experience as a CNA and a lower GPA? Thoughts?

[TheDudeWithTheBigDog, ADN, RN]

If anything, you often see a thread here started by a CNA complaining of how "easy" it is for nurses and how "lazy" they are by not helping CNA's when they are not cognizant of how nurses need to delegate and set priorities that sometimes the CNA are not aware of.

Well to be fair, there are way too many people getting into nursing who should not be working in healthcare. You can do great in school, but still be lazy. Those threads are important, and shouldn't be overlooked, they give people an idea of the kind of nurse they don't want to be. You're not automatically a responsible person just because you got a nursing license by passing some classes and a test. I've seen enough patients get put through hell because their nurse was too busy with snapchat to help them.