cjkes78

I took the first semester of a MA program. And I have to say that I am glad I did. My medical term. course was very in depth. The school that I am taking my PN courses at doesn't offer its nursing students a med. term. class but it does offer it to those in the MA program. That terminology class has helped me because now I can look at a word and break it down and know what it means, where as most of my classmates can't.

Forgive me if I am reading your post wrong, but are you saying an LPN has to have 10 years experience to get into any LPN to RN program? I was under the impression that any LPN could bridge to RN no matter the years of experience as long they were accepted?

Wow. In Virginia to become a CNA you have to take a multiple choice exam with about 75 questions and perform 5 skills for I guess its an RN instructor type person (I forgot the word they use for them). Plus the cost of the test is about 80 dollars.

Hope its okay to post this link here :uhoh21: its another discussion by CNAs that relates to this one. http://www.nursingassistants.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=115

I just finished Funds 1 in PN school. We didn't actually learn some of the things that are taught in CNA classes. For example: we didn't learn how to put a "brief" on a patient, we didn't learn how to put on those hose (ted hose?), we didn't learn how to operate lifts, and I know there is more that I can't remember. When I took my CNA class a few years ago, we were taught those things and we actually had to get in the lifts to know how the patient would feel. Some of the skills that we were't taught in Funds 1 are skills that are on the state board test for NAs. One of my skills for the state board test was putting on those hose. Now, its not like its a complicated task, but those things are hard as H*** to put on and I don't think that if I hadn't been taught and had the practice before that I would have passed that skill, especially since the state wants it done a certain way. Anyway, sorry to get off the topic but this thread made me wander if there are other nursing schools that don't teach students what a CNA learns in their class? BTW: We did learn some basic skills: transfers, oral care, TPR, BP, bed making, bed baths, peri care, etc., but it was no where near as thorough as the basic skills I learned in my CNA class. :)

My cookies are enabled and I visit the forums here frequently. I don't like to be logged in unless I am posting a message and then I log right back out. I don't know why, I just don't like to be logged in on websites all the time, LOL. Anyway, that little box is very annoying because when I am not logged in, every time I change forums or click on a message the box pops back up and stays there a few seconds. The only way around that box I found is to stay logged in while reading the forums.

I am in Virginia too. My PN school tuition is 13,500 and its a 15 month program too. I really never gave much thought to the cost because the classes are small and that is a big plus for me. But 20,000 does seem like a bit too much.

I am starting on my third week in LPN school. We have 2 classes per term which is 5 weeks long. I have my midterm tomorrow on 7 chapters in A&P 1. Its not too bad but there is so much to learn and so little time. We will be doing the skeletal and muscular system this week. I really hope they don't expect us to learn every single bone and muscle in one week:eek: . The test for that is on Friday!!! :)

I am not an experienced nurse, but I was taught in my CNA class not to use powder in the perineal area. I don't remeber the reason but I don't recall the instructor telling us not to use powder on other areas of the skin.

I was offered a scary position in ALF. I was a CNA with about 2 months of experience in LTC. This facility wanted to train me on 7-3 shift and then have me take a med tech class (two 8 hour days) and then they wanted to put me on 11-7 shift. Here is the really scary part - With my 2 months experience I would be the "lead" CNA on the shift and responsible for making sure the other CNAs (some with many years experience) did their jobs. I would be responsible for all 3 floors!!! :uhoh21: There would be no LPN or RN on site, but one would be available for me to call. I would have been responsible for basically anything that happened!!! I went home and thought about it and decided that was nuts ... I didn't have the experience and I couldn't help but think that this had to be illegal because there would not be a nurse on site. I am thinking that it all had to do with the company's bottom line. This position with all this responsibility was going to pay this very inexperienced CNA 7.25 an hour. I hope this facility finally came to their senses and hired a nurse. :)

i worked in a ltc facility as a cna and their dress code was horrible. rns could wear "street" clothes as long as they were nice and business-like (which i thought was pretty cool). lpns, cnas, and dietary wore white scrubs :stone . but the cnas had to wear thick navy blue smocks (those things make you so hot) :angryfire and dietary had to wear teal smocks. housekeeping wore burgandy scrubs. i worked at one facility that let everyone wear their normal, everyday clothes. i wore my scrubs. :wink2:

my lpn program starts next month at a technical school. i will be going to school 8a-3p mon-fri for 15 months. they also have evening classes 5:30-9:30 mon-thurs but that takes 22 months. good luck to everyone starting school!