Where can I go to become a certified nursing assistant in the MD/DC/VA area for cheap/free?
Listen to the people above. You will not be a nurse. You will be a certified nurse assistant. This means you aren’t doing things which nurses do, you’re doing things that are too menial to waste a nurse’s time on, i.e. moving people and things around, serving food, and cleaning up piss. And you’ll get paid $10-12/hr for the privilege. The one thing you will not be doing is anything that requires even an approximation of professional judgment. More to the point, this has absolutely nothing to do with pharmacy. The two aren’t even remotely related, despite their location in the health care industry. Pharm techs assist pharmacists. CNAs assist nurses. Pharmacists and nurses rarely have anything to do with each other. Something else: the lower-end health care jobs are actually kind of going away. CNAs and LPNs are being phased out in hospitals in exchange for more qualified personnel, like RNs and PAs. Currently, the only places hiring CNAs and LPNs with any regularity are nursing homes, w
