Please Help - Very Confused :(

[jgreer425]

I am trying to get my PCT so that I can get my foot in the door in the healthcare industry. I have searched endlessly online, and have only come up with a few PCT programs around Atlanta. Medix and Everest are around 13k, and that just seems outrageous. I talked to my boyfriends dad, a PCT, who said he would never pay that much and that it should only be around 2k total.

I am starting a CNA program today at Covenant CNA in Atlanta. They offer a CNA-PCT bridge class, but I'm not convinced this school is that great. It's a hole-in-the-wall school based in an old office building. From what I've heard, a PCT should combine CNA/PCT, Plem, EKG, CPR, and maybe even first aid. The one at Covenant doesn't cover EKG or first aid, according to the website. That and none of the exams are based in the price, so I'm looking around 2.5k total, which I suppose isn't that bad.

I just want to know if there are other options that I'm not finding? Or if 13k is actually reasonable for what I get. ANY help is appreciated!

[phrozenone]

me too!!!! I've been looking too!!! Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!

[stateofchoice]

I attended Covenant CNA to attain PCT certification. There are problems with this school.

It wasn't as expensive as others, and I will say the school really was trying to teach the students well. The heart was in the right place, however it was very difficult to reach anyone in charge to ask questions or schedule things. The teacher was very good but was under severe pressure to churn out high performing students in an impossible situation. The class was small and I was promised 75 practice sticks at the school and an integrated internship with Emory University. I expected lots of practice and a supportive environment. What I received was two sticks, one practice EKG and nothing from Emory. We stopped doing that, they said. I stayed out of desperation and had to pay for parking. Our teacher had to pay for parking as well. This school was involved with writing the CNA certification test for Georgia and was a testing center, so I was hoping the education would be somehow better because of this.

One major problem was the school had a policy of not telling students what they were doing wrong. Tests came back with a score and wrong answers were marked, but this was quickly taken back up. It was only done to check the teachers grading, and then only because she was so tired from her other job. It was nice of her, and she really wanted us to do well but wasn't supposed to be doing this. I encountered people from the CNA class crying on the stairs twice for this exact reason. Later I realized someone in management was fairly fresh out of the Army and was trying to help younger people in the same position develop a sense of life direction and job skills. This is great but if you are running a school with the attitude that the very act of teaching, explaining things we do incorrectly or don't understand to be cheating then it's not really helping students and future patients. This school also adjusted student scores to make it look like they were doing better by not allowing students who scored poorly on the final (but passed) to take the state test. This is illegal, and I didn't say anything at the time out of concern for my fellow students and wonderful teacher. I didn't want to disrupt anyone's life, now it's been long enough (4 years) so I'm not worried. Don't go here without really checking the current status of the school.[h=1][/h]