chudson958

Hi all! I'm 26 and a CNA who recently went from working full time in LTC and PRN at a hospital to working as a Residential Tech in assisted living (a huge and welcome difference for now,the clients I have are almost fully independent and just require cooking assistance and help with money management) for 2 24 hour shifts a week. I have monday-friday off now,and while I've always wanted to go to nursing school my gpa from when I did attend college is pretty abysmal thanks to various dumb decisions in my youth. I will not be able to start school full time until next fall,in the meantime I feel like I'm wasting the time I have free during the week and I really don't like the idea of picking up another job for now unless I have to. There's an EMT school about an hour away from me offering a night program a couple of days a week,would it be a good idea to complete the program in the meantime and possibly work part-time/volunteer as an EMT until I get the ball rolling on an ADN program/work while I'm in school in that field? I don't want to necessarily take the EMT/Paramedic career path at this moment,but I feel like it would help to keep my direct care senses a little more sharp and help me be less petrified when it comes time for clinicals.