daveleah13

i get paid 10.50 at my work, and the girls who work through agency who come to work with us get paid 17.50 an hour. so through agency, you can work half as much, and make double! i think its way worth it. i am about to start.

i have been a cna for 5 years, and it is very very hard dealing with most of the nurses ive worked with. i have had a couple amazing ones who i actually became friends with. but most are just plain mean. even our don is so awful, she has made me cry several days a week, and made several aides quit. i just often get treated badly. but i know that a nurse who acts that way is choosing to...since i have worked with some amazing nurses. it just depends. but in general, my experience has been very rough when dealing with the respect other nurses have for nurse aides. its a very hard, and often unrewarding job..being a cna.

i am in oklahoma and get paid horribly. if you are thinking 15$ an hour, you must be thinking new york or la! i started at 8.50 and am now making 10.50 at an upstale retirement community. but when i lived in ohio i made almost 13.00 an hour. just depends what state you are in... but definately always underpaid.

It's actually really easy. I moved from Ohio to Oklahoma and had my license transferred. All I did was call national network of nursing assistants, and told them I needed it transferred. They mailed me a "reciprocity" form, I filled it out, sent it back, and two weeks later got my new Oklahoma license in the mail. Easy as pie!

hi guys! i have been a cna for 5 years now, and started a career towards my bsn in ohio and have 47 credits completed. i dropped out and moved to oklahoma, so now i am at a total loss! the schools requirements here are different, and it seems hard and time consuming to re-take half my classes just to get in or possibly be on a wait list to finish my bsn. i was thinking an easier way would be to get my lpn, then its not near as hard to get accepted into another program. i guess my worst fear is losing the credit for all the classes ive completed by waiting to long, its just that even with 47 credits, it will still probably take me 3 years to finish my bsn now that ive changed states and am behind. thats providing that i dont have to be waitlisted. so sometimes 11 months to get my lpn seems like an easier route. anyone have any advice? i was thinking of (for my bsn) either northeastern state,or langston university in tulsa, oklahoma. and as far as lpn goes, all the cheaper schools have big waitlists, so id go to platt...the only downfall is that its 20,000 dollars! which just seems insane to me...but almost seems worth it due to my impatience. i have just waited so long and am so tired of being a cna and just ready to advance! thanks everyone for any help or advice from all of you who have already completed some sort of nursing~