Hey CNA's, are you included in hosptials health insurance plan?

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I am about to get in a CNA training program and hope to actually work as a cna this summer,, do hospitals/etc usually give you health insurance benefits? I would like to be a CNA on weekends to earn money for RN school.

thanks.

NM

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If you are full-time, part-time, or weekender then the hospital will offer some sort of plan. If you work per diem, you likely won't be able to elect into the insurance plan.

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I would assume as long as you are a part time or full time employee then they would offer you benefits. We do have resource employees (employees that work on an as needed basis) that are not eligible for benefits though. I'm an NA and our hospital benefits are pretty good, we are a pretty large hospital so there are quite a few perks that go along with that. Dr appts are $10, most meds are 5 or 10 if we use our own apothecary, ER is $50. We have a pretty good plan where I'm at.

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.

If you are in MS as your screen name implies, you must realize with hospitals you are dealing with mostly HMA facilities with a few others mixed in. That said, most places:

If you get hired PRN, no.

If you choose MS agencies like Southern or PrimeCare, no. Southern's is a joke. Be careful of PrimeCare's Home Health. They will make you drive long distances with no mileage and you will have to wash dishes, cook,

clean, and cart folks to doctor appointments for only $8. Most good home health you just go down a list and give baths for what can be quite a bit more money with a good route. (go figure)

If you go with an LTC, probably not. But, you might get an extra 1-2 an hour for the better ones.

If you get directly HMA or hospital fulltime, you may find the majority of your income goes to insurance, as some of the hospitals only pay around $8 for new grads. (If they hire them full-time at all) Even then, HMA has staffing guidelines that will send you home if you do not have at least 15 patients, starting with a CNA.

LTACs like Regency/ Promise, etc. pay pretty good and have a decent plan (could be wrong), but it is PCT work, and I think they like 1 yr hospital experience.

The federal VA in Jackson has awesome benifiets. However, it can take the feds forever to hire you and everyone

wants to work there.

State VA vets home has good benifiets as well. They can take months to hire, too.

State Hospital (Whitfield) pays crappy, but if you have 3 letters of recommendation and no felonies, will give you up to 1200 per month to go to school and not have to work during that time!! Of course.. the State of MS owns you for up to 2 years. You get state insurance, too.

I am not sure about TN, but in LA it is about the same, but about 2-4 dollars more per hour pay. At least in Memphis, you have national agencies and some of those do if you work much with them.

Hope that helps!

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.

BTW, more on HMA and MS here. This is pretty much an RN board. If the RNs are restless..

much must be wrong. Even I had to put my measly CNA opinion in.

https://allnurses.com/mississippi-nurses/hma-hospitals-124692.html

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Specializes in ICU.

At my hospital clinical staff get benefits if you're full time, 72+ hours every 2-week payperiod (cheapest options) or part time, 36+ hours every 2-week payperiod (plans cost more per paycheck). If you're PRN or consistently work less than the part-time hours, you do not have the option of health benefits.

I have a coworker friend who went to part-time when she started nursing school, thinking she would work weekends. She couldn't keep up with school and work, so only worked like 2 shifts a month. She ended up losing her benefits because she couldn't work part-time hours. :(

Make sure it's a job you can really commit to if you're going to be counting on it as your source of health benefits.

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