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Hello everyone! I am wanting to ask some advice about job seeking as a nursing student. I will be beginning my second year in a few months and I desperately need a job this summer. My preference was to find a PRN CNA position...but the problem is I'm not getting any calls at all!! I submit a decent resume and fill out the online apps, as well for any position I can find with no luck whatsoever. I've made follow-up calls several times. What else can I do? Or...what am I not doing that I should be doing? It seems all my classmates are finding these jobs easily and yet here I am. I have a high B average and the college I attend is highly respected in my area...so I have been told numerous times. I thought this would be so easy when it was time to find work. I am getting depressed and disappointed and a little worried that if I can't find a job now...what will it be like when I actually have my RN? If anyone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate hearing them!

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Oh, and for the record, I am not running around telling anyone that I am a nurse...I specifically just typed that name in when registering to ask my question on this board...it never crossed my mind that I would offend anyone or that anyone would even pay attention.

The site terms of service, if anyone not just you, bothered to read them are very specific regarding choosing a title not earned. The title nurse is reserved for those licensed by a state board of nursing as such and in more than 40 states a legally protected title. This should be covered in fundamentals of nursing or a similar class in school, whichever class you discuss professional licensing, liability and scope of practice.

You are likely able to work as a (non certified) nursing assistant also called "unlicensed assistive personnel" in regulations, scope of practice and nursing fundamental textbooks.

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My deepest apologies, for I did not read the terms of service as I should have. Thank you for enlightening me, I shall try harder to abide by the terms and rules set forth. I stand corrected.

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I am just now going back and reading all of the comments on my post and I just have to say that I am saddened by what I am seeing. How is it that medical professionals, or students, or human beings for that matter, can be so degrading to someone coming to them for advice? I don't post on boards much, but the few times I have, I remember some rude comments. Honestly, I didn't think I would find that here. You ask what I learned in fundamentals, I will tell you one thing...I learned not to treat people the way you have commented to me. No, I take that back, I didn't learn that...that's just part of who I am and why I have chosen to seek a degree as a nurse. Thank you for teaching me the kind of nurse I NEVER want to be. I hope you all don't speak to your patients this way.

Thank you to those of you who have actually been kind and helpful.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I am just now going back and reading all of the comments on my post and I just have to say that I am saddened by what I am seeing. How is it that medical professionals, or students, or human beings for that matter, can be so degrading to someone coming to them for advice? I don't post on boards much, but the few times I have, I remember some rude comments. Honestly, I didn't think I would find that here. You ask what I learned in fundamentals, I will tell you one thing...I learned not to treat people the way you have commented to me. No, I take that back, I didn't learn that...that's just part of who I am and why I have chosen to seek a degree as a nurse. Thank you for teaching me the kind of nurse I NEVER want to be. I hope you all don't speak to your patients this way.

Thank you to those of you who have actually been kind and helpful.

Oy vey, here we go again. You'll probably come back here claiming NETY.

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Ha! Ha! Good one!!

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Specializes in Neuro, Telemetry.

When you're applying you need to be reading job descriptions. If the job is for a CNA and requires a CNA cert, you don't qualify for that job. Even after a semester if nursing school. What you need to be looking for are PCT/PCA jobs that specifically state that nursing students who passed block one qualify for. Also consider that if you apply with no experience and no CNA cert, you will likely not get the job over someone with either experience or a CNA cert or both.

I ran ran into this same problem after block one. I couldn't find a job so I challenged the CNA exam and got my certificate. I had a job 1.5 mos later as a CNA in a LTC. I live in a state with a CNA education waiver for nursing students who pass block one. We just have to take the exam without the course.

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Specializes in Cardiac/Progressive Care.

After my first semester of nursing school, I could apply for my CNA license by 'licensure by comparable education'. I didn't have to test, just fill out the application for my license with all of my school information. I don't know if that's how it is in your state?

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Check with your state board of nursing and see how you could get your cna as a nursing student. Per diem cna positions are usually for experienced cna's , I would advise you to look for student nurse position , you may have much more success with that. Please note that you have to be patient, just like you many other people are applying as well.

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