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Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I will try all of them!

Thanks! I will have to try that!

Thanks for your help!

I'm am doing the prerequiste classes to get into the LPN program in the spring. Currently I am taking Patient Care Fundamentals and we are doing clinicals at a local nursing home. Since I've started, I wash my hands a million times a day and also use hand santizer. My hands are killing me! They are cracked, dried out and feel like an 80 year olds hands. When I get home I put lots of lotion on my hands, but it doesnt help very much. Please tell me what can I do about this? There's gotta be some magic lotion or something that can help. I dont think my hands will make it, washing them like this for years to come.

I will be completing the Health Service Technician certificate at my school which is the classes I have to take to be eligible to apply for the PN program. I will be done with that in December and I will sit for the state CNA exam. I have taken phlebotomy but we are not required to do the clinical, so hopefully I can still get a PCT job without doing to the clinical. I have looked up the classes that you have to take for the PCT certification and they are less than what I've had with Health Services Tech which includes phlebotomy. So hopefully I will be good to go and get the job. Thanks!

I am currently during the prereq to get into the LPN program at my school in the spring 09 and I will be done with that this december. In december when I'm done, I will be eligible to sit for the state exam and get my CNA certification. I want to start working to get experience before nursing school starts. I have seen a few jobs posted for local hospitals that are hiring for a patient care technician. The only requirements that it lists, is that you have your CNA. But, on the job description it also says that you would be drawing blood and reading EKGs, so I guess they teach you that. My question is, does anyone know, the difference between a PCT and a CNA as far as the qualifications to become a PCT, and if you need experience or any other certification besides being a CNA? And also, what is the pay difference? Thanks