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@soxgirl2008 thank you! Since I posted this topic I was offered part-time nights (11:30-7:30) so I will be getting shift differential and will be able to afford the switch. It will be tight but I can do it. I think the experience will be worth it but I have so many people telling me I don't need it or that it's not worth witching just to get experience, especially when I'll have to pay student loans etc. I have made the decision to accept the job. I just hope that I made the right choice!!

I was offered the job for the nursing assistant position. It's a day/evening rotation. There is a shift differential for evenings and weekends. They will work around my school schedule. I will get acute care hospital experience on a floor for overflow ED patients at a great Massachusetts hospital. I think that having patient care experience will help me be more confident in the future when it comes to being an RN. I'm currently an admin at a construction company. It's a boring job but the pay and benefits are great. It's really tough to figure out especially since I'm only in the ASN program and will be doing the bridge to BSN after I get my RN.

I guess I'm just afraid that I if I don't have any patient care experience (besides clinicals) when I graduate, that it will be harder to get a job.

I am having a difficult time making the decision of taking a pay cut from my current full time job that I make $20/hr. to taking a CNA job at a local (really great) hospital for $14/hr part time (32hrs a week). It's a rotating day/evening shift and I would get differential on weekends and evenings. I think the experience could open doors in the long run. And I can get more affordable health insurance through my college. I'm currently enrolled in an ASN program and will be graduating (hopefully!) in December 2014. So it will be about a year and a half before I'm an RN. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!