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Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

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Specializes in med/surg and Tele.

I dont know why these things are even legal. I cant think if a way to make that situation positive for you. 15K is WAY to much money. Sorry you made such a sacrafice monitarily for this. :(

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Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

CNA and Medical Assistant are two very different jobs.

Which one did you want to be?

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

Because you have to make mistakes to learn from them. Don't worry, lots of people have asked themselves that question.

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Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

Sorry, can't help you with that one ...

I think a lot of these v. expensive private vocational schools are little more than scams, and they prey on people who just don't know any better.

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What you can do is continue your education, perhaps finish an Associates degree in Medical Assisting at a Community College, and then work at a highter pay potential.

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I want to be an RN. But I was looking for a quick way to break into the medical field. I do feel like a sucker because the education is very sub par. The teachers don't even teach you its the other students helping you out! I was thinking of quitting half way through but I knew that would make me look like a quitter. Some students have gotten jobs as ma's after the program though. Ill be done in march. Right now Im just trying to learn all I can and applying for jobs from nurses aid, to caregiver, to MA, to medical receptionist. I just need to be in the environment and with a steady job.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

Hey, a lot of facilities have STNA training-and they'll pay for nursing school, but being an MA and a nurse are two different things.

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^^^ whats STNA training? I totally agree that MA/RN are way different. I think I'm going to get my CNA anyway since its so quick and inexpensive and along the lines of what I actually want to do. But please tell me more about this STNA training?

And thanks for everyones replys so far :)

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg.
Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

Well, even if the pay is high, your training as an MA will bring you valuable knowledge help you through a CNA course... Just take all you can from the experience, get to work on clearing that debt away, and find a good CNA program.

Good luck!

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Specializes in LTC, Oncology/Women's Health; Med/Surg.

i paid $25,000 for my medical assisting degree. I got a job, worked for a few months, then decided to go back to school for nursing. TBH the pay was NOT good enough to live on. That was also in 2006, things might be a little different now!

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Thanks guys!

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