What was the best thing about CNA school?

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Specializes in BNAT instructor, ICU, Hospice,triage.

Tell me what helped or what made you really love CNA school. What as something you liked or something that you disliked.

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Specializes in Critical Care Transport, Cardiac ICU, Rapid.

My class was pretty big, took it at a small school specifically for nursing courses and certs and etc, I thought the education itself was interesting as was breaking into small groups and doing skills. When we broke into smaller groups i honestly loved those that i was paired with and the facility, developed some great bonds.

jist started nursing school earlier this week and although It feels like we've all been getting slammed by reading and assignments I can say I'm excited for what's in store since our whole cohort gets along very well.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

I liked clinicals and learning how to take manual blood pressures. Those were my favorite parts. I was pretty indifferent about the class as a whole.

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Tell me what helped or what made you really love CNA school. What as something you liked or something that you disliked.

I can't quite say I loved CNA training at any point. The first time I took the course I had ladies in my classroom that I developed relationships with. The worst part would be the body odors in clinicals. Everything else was smooth sailing. What made it easiest was not having anything else to distract me from focusing on my course. No children. No school at the time. No work at the time.

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I actually really liked becoming a CNA. I didn't like some of our clinical sites though. They were yucky- but I studied the 20 skills and knew them like the back of my hand before the practical exam. It's very easy!

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Best: My clinical instructor and a couple of the girls who were doing it for the right reasons. Worst: The catty, immature girls who made up the majority of the class.

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Specializes in Nurse's Aide.

I had a decent sized class, and the instructors were very good at making sure we were on top of our skills and making sure they were correct.

I enjoyed the clinical days when we went to an actual real-life setting. It was nerve-wracking, scary, and intimidating being in a real world place to practice my skills, but those were the best days because I really learned the skills and had it ingrained.

I disliked the cliquey-type groups that my class started right at the beginning. I remember only certain classmates I could talk to and get help from or felt comfortable enough to be their partner during our skill checks.

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I loved every second of my CNA1 class. It was a free program through a nursing home. There were about 12 of us and we all really bonded--it was 8 years ago and most of us are still in contact even though we've all gone our separate ways. Our instructor was a really lively, brilliant woman with 40+ years nursing experience and incredible stories, it was impossible to not pay attention and love being in class. She had us practice most of the CNA skills on each other so we could have the perspective of being a dependent patient, and I think that hit us hard. We laughed, we cried, we laughed so hard that we cried.

I took a CNA2 Acute Care class shortly afterward at a local community college. It was the first CNA2 class offered by the school so it felt disorganized and experimental. I liked it because we had free reign of a mostly abandoned old hospital at night for our labs and it was creepy.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.

I truly enjoyed CNA school! I was in the midst of RN prereqs when I took the class and it really helped me to understand how the things I learned in my classes related to pt care.

I also liked the fact that my CNA instructor was willing to tell us: do it this way for the test, but in the facility, you will need to do it that way. Transparency is awesome!

I am glad I went to CNA school because it made me better at performing basic pt care such as transfers, feeding, communication, brief changes, etcetera. It also helped me to become more adept at working with people with dementia.

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The best part was the classroom instructor. He was very personable and made class fun. The worst part was my classmates. All but one of my classmates was female, and out of about 15 students, there were maybe 5, including the male, that actually acted like decent human beings. I really felt bad for any patient that would have some of my class mates. They would be really loud, mean, and petty and for some reason almost everything was sexual or related back to sex in some way for them. It was a really odd group dynamic, and I felt bad for the male student, because I honestly felt like he was sexually harassed. I wasn't looking forward to my RN classes because of this, but thankfully most of my class is really great and we're very respectful and supportive of each other. I have no idea what was going on with my CNA class...

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I loved my CNA class. It was from 5-9p two days a week and we'd have potluck dinners or order pizza almost every class. There were 8 of us. We all came from a wide variety of backgrounds, but we all got along really well.

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It was easier than working as an actual CNA :(

Also, my classmates were really funny and we bounded really well.

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