charmingcarmen

Thank you all so much! Great advice from each of you. I will definitely put it to use. After completing the job shadowing process at the dialysis center, I feel that it's not something I'd like to do. I love to work on a very personal level with patients and actually get to interact with them more. I also feel that it may be a bit too much for me to take in seeing that I'm just starting out. I will start looking into the facilities that you mentioned. Thanks again!!

Hello!!!! :) i've literally just received my cna license a few days ago. I'm very excited but now that i have it i'm completely lost as to what steps i need to take. I've noticed a lot of jobs state that they want 6 months to a year of experience. I've contacted a few places to volunteer but no response yet. I've held a short job at octapharma plasma but wasn't there long enough to add it to my resume as experience. I've held prior certifications as a medical assistant, ekg tech, as well as phlebotomy but they've all expired without me being able to put them to use (due to an issue with my certs). I've only held jobs in retail and to be honest, that doesn't look pretty good either. Due to a lot of personal situations and lack of stability my jobs were pretty short term and didn't end very well. But on the plus side, i'm waiting on a response for a job with a well known dialysis center and while i'm pretty sure i have the job i'm not exactly sure i want to take it due to the fact that my cna will just go to waste. I was told i would have to get a completely new license there and that the cna won't matter. Sorry for the super long paragraph but any advice would be highly appreciated!