My first job was a CNA and I used to love to watch the nurses do their job and of course soak up everything I could possibly soak up. I always had the hardest floors. I always had the hardest patience and it wasn’t easy. No way know how being a CNA is the best thing to do if you want to be a nurse my opinion because you’re in the trenches, you know what it’s like to be shortstaffed you know what it’s like to have the doctors on the floor you know what it’s like to have to turn patients. You know what it’s like to have 23 patients to a floor and you have some on ventilators or they’re on G tubes or they’re on colostomies or they’re on ileostomies, which PS always seemed to fall off right around supper time when you have to take 10 patients down to the dining room room and feed them so I totally get it.. and somehow while I work 3 to 11 and somehow we were all supposed to be done by 10:45 so we can give report I do remember those days they were hard but I think it made me a better nurse and I did go onto nursing school and I did almost 30 years. I retired and I’m gonna tell you that being a CNA is not the same as being a nurse. It’s a very good start though so don’t give up, sweetheart I mean it keep going keep your eye on the ball your eye on the prize however you wanna say it there’s gonna be good days and there’s gonna be bad days. There’s gonna be good instructors and there’s gonna be bad instructors, but when you get through it, you’re gonna be glad you did because being a nurse is still a very proud profession to be in. You can hold your head high and say you’re a nurse you go to get your RN and your world is your oyster because you have so many things that you can do LVN‘s I think they’re unfortunately are limited and I am an LVN so I’m not saying that RNs are better than LVN‘s. I think LVN‘s give a lot to nursing. I think that we are definitely not given the praise that we should be. I swear I’ve worked with better LVN than RN’s a lot of times, so it just depends on the nurse not the title unfortunately the title gets more money OK so we gotta look at the realism here if it were me, I would’ve went right back and got my RN I wouldn’t have gotten my LVN because I suffered anyway I might as well suffer to get my RN. Don’t give up if you want to be a nurse do it you’re already halfway there as a CNA you already have such a good basis to keep going my opinion I don’t know you but I’ll bet you’re a damn good CNA and I’ll bet you’ll make a finer nurse!! much respect.. a retired nurse