I am wondering how to become a good candidate to work as a Patient Care Technician/CNA in a hospital/acute care setting.
Currently I am a home health aide and have been for the past 3 1/2 years. I am a C.N.A. and will have my 2 year Pre-Nursing degree in August. I have had experience in long term care facilities prior to my work as a home health aide.
I am in the Seattle area and there are a lot of hospitals around me, but I need some guidance from any of you who successfully gotten work as a CNA in a hospital or other acute care setting.
Specializes in 1st year Critical Care RN, not CCRN cert.
I guess my assumption about your not having clinical hours comes from the fact you are asking how to get your foot in the door. If you have been through med-surg1 or fundamentals of nursing or ob/peds you would have face time in the hospitals and know the answer to your questions.
As far as upset, I am not upset I am trying to be clear. You are not working on your ADN and that in itself is an RN (of course you have to pass the nclex-rn but that is obvious right?)
As far as my statement you have no clue what you are in for. I am not referring to clinical hours, I am referring to the nursing core classes. They are nothing like any gen ed class you will ever take. You really need to spend the recommended 12 hours a week studying in a 4 credit hour class, and that does not seem to be enough. Our class average grade is an 80% and that is only 4 points away from an F. Until you hit your first core class, it is hard to understand why it is so much different, but it is!
Who cares? She's asking about hospital work, not school. People around here get so uppity about these things. You'd think nurses were the only people in the world who ever went to college.
OP, it seems like you have plenty of CNA experience in different settings. The only thing I can suggest is to volunteer and also apply to all different shifts so you'll be considered for whatever they're actually hiring for.
I care. I'm not uppity for christs sake, im confused. calm down.
ADN stands for associate's degree nursing, and is a 2 year (core classes) nursing program that includes clinicals. It comes after all the pre-reqs have been completed. Upon completion of the ADN, you can take the NCLEX and will be considered an RN. Just an FYI! :)
Also, I would think you have more than enough CNA experience to get into a hospital. Good luck!!!
tamadrummer
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I guess my assumption about your not having clinical hours comes from the fact you are asking how to get your foot in the door. If you have been through med-surg1 or fundamentals of nursing or ob/peds you would have face time in the hospitals and know the answer to your questions.
As far as upset, I am not upset I am trying to be clear. You are not working on your ADN and that in itself is an RN (of course you have to pass the nclex-rn but that is obvious right?)
As far as my statement you have no clue what you are in for. I am not referring to clinical hours, I am referring to the nursing core classes. They are nothing like any gen ed class you will ever take. You really need to spend the recommended 12 hours a week studying in a 4 credit hour class, and that does not seem to be enough. Our class average grade is an 80% and that is only 4 points away from an F. Until you hit your first core class, it is hard to understand why it is so much different, but it is!