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Kaplan on-line and Saunder's Compre and Practice Tests worked for me. What is important, prepare a study time table which works for you best, the follow it STRICTLY.

... i remember what our clinical instructors always tell us while doing our clinicals ... "a delay in service means a failure in service" ...

I AGREE !!!!

You're young and you can do far better jobs than CNA in the future. Consider your CNA job as stepping stone for an advanced healthcare career, i.e. if your heart is really for healthcare.

Read the Saunders Comprehensive - all the chapters, and answer the practice questions at the end of each chapter. Try to get a score of 80% in each practice questions. If you score below 80% read the topic/chapter in which you scored low. Do the KAPLAN practice tests , they are very HELPFUL. They are as difficult as the questions in the nclex exam. Read the thread on NCLEX. You will get some tips from the bloggers. GOOD LUCK :)

Go with your plan, that is, if your mom will buy your idea. I'm in mid-40s when I finished nursing, as my second degree.

For some, it may be hard ... but hey we need to work for what we are being paid for .

how is the job market in vermont, esp. for those without clinical experience?

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Now comes another challenge - how to land on a job as a new grad Goodluck!!!

hi mae ... none that i know, only sample practice tests on the written part.

Have you taken or are you taking a refresher course?

...it depends on the State, but the renewal date always fall on one's birthday

If you are already a Licensed LPN, i think you just have to work on your "expired" license ...may be take some CME units and a refresher course. I haven't heard of someone, who already has a license, sitting for another nclex exam just because his/her license has expired.

AND also im not working as a CNA yet.. i am taking the test on march 20 to be certified.. hehe.. although i already have an agency willing to take me after i have it.. i think i would like it.. i just want to work.. any job right now.. and relating to my field of experience would be a blessing.. Hello to all who posted in this thread ... I'm also a registered nurse from the Phil (nursing is my second degree). Without a formal CNA class attendance, I challenged the CNA certifying exam in February here in new york. The written part is very easy. Having a background on many areas of nursing theoretical wise, i found the questions very practical and easy. The sad thing is, i failed the skills part . In the exam, a testtaker will be given three skills to be done on a volunteer or a mannequin (I passed the two skills except for one which in which I was evaluated as "weak"). You have to do good in all the three skills to get a PASSING remark on the practical part. I suggest that you ask someone you know who took the CNA certifying exam, the skills part specifically. Do not rely on videos/dvds - they are totally different from what is thought in a cna training school. Good luck

A large number of filipino registered nurses dream of moving to US or Canada for a one simple reason: seek for a greener pasture, then provide for a better life for their families back home.