So... I start my CNA test prep course tomorrow morning. 3 10-hour classes then I can take my test. I'm nervous. I took the practice test online before I even signed up for the course to see if I'd have a shot at actually passing. I missed 6 out of 50 (so 88%) and I wrote down my 2nd guess on the ones I wasn't sure on... I would have gotten 50/50 if I'd gone with my 2nd guess... so I think I'll be fine on the "book work" portion of the test... but the clinicals scare me. AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol
Thanks for letting me vent!
Quoting ajzuell:I'm not sure but I'm wishing you the best of luck!
thanks :) I just can't get over my nerves yet. I know once i get in there and participate that I'll be fine... but right now....... holy cow! lol I feel like I'm ready to puke and poop and faint all at the same time lol (TMI I'm sure, sorry)
I thought that the book work and the clinicals were easy. It was the stateboard thing that got to me. I just graduated in Sept and I still havent been able to pass my stateboards. I have took them 2 times so far. The written test for the state was a breeze, I think I made like a 93 or 95. I just suck at my skill test. Good Luck, I am sure you will be fine.
Quoting brandi2781:I thought that the book work and the clinicals were easy. It was the stateboard thing that got to me. I just graduated in Sept and I still havent been able to pass my stateboards. I have took them 2 times so far. The written test for the state was a breeze, I think I made like a 93 or 95. I just suck at my skill test. Good Luck, I am sure you will be fine.
well the school i'm going to offers 2 hours of free 1-on-1 training a few days before you take the test from the state to go over the clinicals. I've heard that you can miss one or two questions on the written portion of the test but if you mess up 1 thing with the clinicals test then you automatically fail (which I think THAT'S what's making me so nervous) How long does it take to do the test?
okay so 10 hours down, 20 to go...
the RN instructing us is great. humorous and very patient with us. The woman I was partnered with to practice the clinicals, however, was NOT good. I don't mean she didn't know what she was doing (none of us did), or that she wasn't trying. However, she always went first, half-assed her way through everything, didn't do the RP'ing that we're supposed to (to make sure we actually pass the state exam) and every time it was my turn, she'd just go "okay, well you saw me do it so you'll be fine". On some of it I could see that because I can just practice at home on my hubby, but things like finding the pulse for taking BP, or dressing someone with a bad leg/arm I can't do at home.
We ended up getting close to finishing at 5 instead of 6 because we breezed through some of our clinicals (the last one was dressing someone - using a manequin) and instead of actually letting me do what I'm supposed to, she was like "let's just dress him together and say we each did our own so we can go home"... hmmm... no, I'm supposed to know how to do it on my own, I'm going to practice on my own, tyvm. And then, because the manequins all have female nether regions (for the cath cleaning and perineal care) she kept pulling the sheet up and playing with it and giggling, thus setting me back. (mind you, she's like 50, giggling over a plastic twat) I felt like smacking her asking her if that's how she was going to treat a real person. 'Hello Mrs. Jones, would you mind if I smack your vagina and then giggle at you for 10 minutes before I do my job? You don't mind? Okay great, thank you!"
So, for day 1, good class, bad partner. Hopefully I get someone else tomorrow.
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