Questions about doubling up CNA / Unit Secretary

[solDanz]

To start, a little background. While I have been surrounded by the medical field my entire life, I've only lately become a CNA. The facility that has hired me is not among the higher paying ones in the area, so many staffers jump ship as soon as they can get in other places. As such, we are often short staffed.Recently there was a notice posted for internal candidates that may be interested in a Unit Secretary position.One was for a rehab unit, and the other for a LTC unit, both in the same facility. While I am trying to catch the HR person for an official job description to possibly consider it, thought I'd ask a few questions here. I work 2300 to 0700 as a CNA, total patient care. But often things are messy, missing, not available, out, etc. And when appointments are made by family members, doctors, nurses, the lab staff, etc, it is sometimes not communicated all the way through to the appropriate staffers to allow enough time to properly prepare the patients & residents for them. These issues not only affect the ability of my coworkers & myself to do our jobs, it grates on me personally, as those types of issues are some of my few major pet peeves.

So if you don't mind, I'm just going to list my questions out to keep things short and sweet.

1) Based off of your knowledge & understanding of the position and those you may know who work or have worked in it, do you believe that the Unit Secretary position could be done in conjunction with working as a CNA?

2) In your opinions, even if it is not possible to do both jobs together, do you think that it would be possible to at least convince the facility to split the job? As I am on the overnight shift, I can understand if they did not want to be paying me for working double shifts, even if it's just two to four days a week. So if working both jobs at once are not an option at all, do you believe that a/my facility would be willing to split the job, at the very least reducing the amount of work that the nursing staff would have to do in order to complete the rest of the responsibilities of the job?

3) Will this experience be of use in any potential nursing school coursework?

Thank you for your time.