justus4

It depends on the facility/type of work if you need to be certified or not... I live within 10 miles of two huge hospitals that hire NA's and having your CNA doesn't matter. Most long term care centers require certification Many hospitals do not, same with home health care aids.

what does TEAS stand for? As a student at the end of my second semester ( a month away from LPN degree) that sounds interesting.... there were a lot of students last semester that made it through A&P, etc but couldn't cut it when it came to the real classes... I wonder what it tests you on???

Kirkwood CC in Cedar Rapids... second semester of clinic:)

Because of our crappy economy, I can no longer take out private student loans, which I have done for a few years now.... I get a little bit of money from FAFSA, but obviously not enough. I work as much as possible, but with 8 hr clinics twice a week and about 12-16 hrs. of prep each week for clinic, not to MENTION lecture twice a week and all the assignments, tests and quizes for that, I barely have time to eat, let alone work much. I am looking for responses from people that have any kind of knowledge of common nursing scholarships, or even companies that are still lending money. I am a 3.2gpa student at an Iowa school. PLEASE HELP, I'M SOOOOO BROKE!

As a home health aid, my job was to travel to people's houses each day and assist with several different cares. I was at the house of a basically comatose older gentleman and my duties were to provide him with a bed bath and then transfer him from the bed to a chair. I had finished with his bath and I had worked the hoyer lift sheet under him when he started farting. I waited for a few minutes because since he was bare-bottomed, I didn't want to have to clean up a mess on the floor. Once his gas was gone, I used the hoyer to get him up in the air. he was positioned above his wheelchair when his foley cath line got caught.... I untangled it and went under his body to get it to the chair when all the sudden his body slid down in the lift, and just as I noticed his bare bottom right above me, I looked up just in time to see a HUGE stream of black, tarry poop hitting me in the face!!! I was completely covered in his poo but I still had to finish getting him into his wheelchair and finish up before I was able to get into my car and race home to shower! UGH:nurse:

I MUCH MUCH MUCH prefered being a CNA in a hospital.... In a long term care setting, you do learn a lot about basic patient cares like bathing, feeding, etc, However.... in a hospital you learn so much more anatomy, testing/results, computer skill such as charting which will come in handy SO MUCH when you get into nursing school, and your client population changes so frequently that you are able to see so much more. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED long term care... it's like having 60+ grandparents... but in terms of education, I learned much more being a CNA in the hospital.