snf vs hospital, which teaches best cna skills for being an RN?

[northmississippi]

I feel that if i actually use my cna lic. I will be a better RN after i graduate nursing school. Should I work at a nursing home or hospital? Do cna's from both places have the same skills? I always here about RN's acting like they are helpless when it comes to things a CNA usually does, I dont want to be like that.

[Ytellu]

I've worked both and think you would learn the most if you worked at both places. It's easier getting a job in LTC. Try to do per diem at a hospital so you get to experience both. Two different worlds.

[MN-Nurse, ASN, RN]

I've worked both and think you would learn the most if you worked at both places. It's easier getting a job in LTC.

Could not agree more. I think I probably learned more in LTC because at the crappy facility I was at the NA provided the majority of care - even on my TCU floor. The nurses were always understaffed and barely had time to sprint by residents tossing pills at them.

As a bonus, this place is so horrendous they have the CNAs and Nurses serve all the meals, leaving that much less time to provide care.