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Thank you guys for responding. Before I respond to each individual separately, I would like to make it clear that my classes WITH the Cna class and clinical comes out to 22 credit hours. My classes come out to fifthteen credit hours and the Cna program equals out to seven credit hours. I apologize for not making that clear in my first post. heelhook80- I have a clinical once a week. Most of the clinicals are eight hour shifts from seven to three. I need to go ahead and get certified as a Cna in order to begin getting health care experience. I would like to have altleast three or four years of direct patient care contact under my belt before applying to the physician assistant program. Plus, I really need a job as soon as possible and there are a lot of openings for CNAs and Caregivers in my area. JustYouWait- Thank you so much for your words of encouragement:heartbeat I feel pretty good about the way I have my schedule set up. And I agree that a professor can make the class easy or hard. I know two of my professors are really nice and helpful. I don't have a clue about my other three. I heard from my mom and my sister that all the Cna teachers they met were really nice, not necessarily lenient though. Nice, but they will get on your back and push you if need be, which I find to be a good quality in teachers. I hope my Chemistry professor is like that or better or else I will be in a huge heap of trouble. I don't need for my teacher to make Chemistry any more difficult than it is already. I do have a recorder actually and thanks to you I will be using it for my philosophy lecture this semester. Maybe my chemistry lecture as well. caliotter3- The 22 unit workload includes the Cna course.

allisonhillary- Thanks for your input. I'm already considering dropping my three credit hour philosophy class. Even though the class will be easy for me, it will take a little of weight off my shoulders and give me more time to focus on my other studies. I would drop the chemistry, but the chemistry class is a prerequisite for organics chem I. I rather not make my college journey of five years any longer than it has to be, which will be a total of five years when I finish anyway and that is only if everything goes as I plan. I am extremely self-motivated and determined to maintain my GPA. I feel all my classes will be relatively easy/medium type classes except my dreaded chemistry class. I think if I can adopt a new attitude about chemistry and become more enthused and interested in the subject than I will be able to get an "A" in the class.

Thank you all for your responses:D fuzzywuzzy- You are right. I am not my sister and I should not base whether I will like or hate being a Cna off of her experiences. And earlier today, without reading any sections or scanning my Cna book, I opened my book to a review section, which was dealing with questions on washing your hands, bacteria, and the such, and I was able to answer eleven questions out of the thirteen. So obviously that chapter couldn't have been too complicated. When it comes to the course, I don't feel it will be difficult. I think it will just be alot of material to take in within short periods of time. We have a schelduled exam every other week on covering modules:eek: Can't be that bad, right? HealthcareProf- The spring semester is a full 16 weeks. Maybe you are thinking of the summer semester. Finally my Time- I agree. It will take a ton of dedication to give each class the 2-3 hours of study/work time necessary; however, I know I can do it if I remain committed. cryswms- Wow!!! It is nice to know I am not the only one out there doing this. Yeah, this is definitely for only one semester. I did not want to take a semester off or take less classes in order to do the cna program when I feel I can just do it all in one semester. Thank you for your support. You have my support as well. We can do it!!!

This spring semester I will be taking 22 credit hours at my community college. The classes will be General Chemistry II, Elementary Spanish, Philosophy 102 (Logic), and Elementary Statistics. And on top of that, I am taking the Certified Nursing Assistant Program this semester as well. I don't work or have any kids and I live with my family. I do have a boyfriend who is very understanding of my situation. I'm not going into this semester thinking it will be a cakewalk... I'm going in knowing I will have to commit pretty much all of my time to my studies and I am more than willing to make the commitment necessary for me to succeed. However, I may be a little beyond myself and I do not want to get a "C" on my transcript in any of my classes. Am I setting myself up for failure? And when I first applied to the Cna program I was overly excited about finally joining the health field and obtaining some releveant health care experience on top of helping others in need while earning some money. Now I don't feel excited at all like I use to and I think of the unpleasant duties of being a cna more than I think of the positive. Am I getting cold feet? Am I making the wrong choice? What if I go through this program and I come out on the end hating everything about being a Cna (like my sister did)? Or what if the excitement has just died down since I have been anxiously anticipating starting the program since early December 2009 (it doesn't begin until the 26th of this month)? Also it would be wonderful if previous Cna students can give me helpful tips that helped them when it came to the lecture material, labs and clinicals. Thanks in advance:), Jessie