Educational Goals To Become A Certified Nursing Assistant

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My educational goals that I set for myself are high. I am going to Saint Cloud Technical and Community College this summer, to be a certified nursing assistant. I then plan to work as a certified nursing assistant while I attend Saint Cloud State University to get my bachelors in nursing. I would like work as a nurse for a while and then go back to school and take online classes at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for my masters for either a Nurse Midwife or a Nurse Anesthetist. The steps I have taken to achieve this is, I have taken college anatomy, donated and volunteered at blood drives, and I have job shadowed a nurse and an x-ray technician. I have been working at St.Otto's care center as a dietary aid for the past eight months

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