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It could be very difficult to fulfill a full-time position in both areas, but I think it wouldn't be too bad if one was to work as a CRNA full-time and as an ACNP a few shifts a month in an ER setting. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for your reply.

Interesting; thats somewhat akin to my query, however, Np and an Er nurse are under the same nursing model. I'm curious if it is possible to hold a license in a nursing and medical model simultaneously?

Hypothetically, can one hold a crna license and a Pa license simultaneously? Is that possible or even allowed? I know they are two different model, but can one work as a Crna as a full-time job and as a Pa in say cardiology, part-time a few shifts a month? I know it would take additional schooling off course.

You should be fine. As long as your trainer is good at the job. Its really about how good you manage your time. Its a med surgical floor so you're gonna see almost every kind of patient include the additional ortho patients.

Well to be quite honest, there are only nuances from floor to floor in respect to CNA work in the hospital. On a cardiovascular floor, the CNA might do EKGs, in the ER, they might draw blood and do urinalysis, on a surgery floor you work with CMP machines, but ultimately, the general duties of CNA are the same on any floor with the few exceptions aforementioned. CNAs are expected to take the patients to the bathroom, bathe them and soon on. I definitely like working at a hospital because of those few extra things a CNA can do. Withal, if your end goal is to become a nurse then its the logical place to work for.

Am sorry, not to be crass, but is this a real thread?

I don't remember taking chemistry in high school. I just took it two semesters ago and loved it. My teacher was extremely picky but she curved a lot. I ended up with an A in the class. As mentioned above, use all the resources available to you in order to pass the class.

I'll be starting nursing school in the spring. However in the fall I'm gonna be taking world geography to fulfill a global study requirement class.

It will be over before you know it.

This semester I took philosophy, sociology f&m and business. Pulled an A in all of them! thank God. For the fall only gotta take one class (World Geography) and it off to nursing school after that. I really can't wait.

Its definitely not a glamorous job, thats for sure.

Why can't you maintain it? Nursing school is hard work but being optimistic is a good attribute. I know people who maintain a 4.0 and (God willing) I intend to be one them.

Welcome to the site. You are in the right place for great advice in quest to become a NP.

Being a CNA is a very demanding job, physically and mentally. However, there is never an excuse to treat patients like ****. I'm a CNA and I can't wait to start nursing school, for several reasons one of being because I'm burnt out as a CNA. I've seen nurses who I trained as a CNA and are now nurses, but act like jerks once they became nurses. Its sometimes a hard pill to swallow. More often than not, I have a pre-conceived notion that most of the nurses I come across are just mean and demeaning people. I really don't want to excuse the CNAs for being mean however.