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How to become a neonatal nurse?
I am 20 years old and I have already taken some of my classes in community college on the path to nursing school. I have only taken a few reading, math and English classes and had to take a break because I got pregnant. Well now my daughter is one year old and I am getting back into school starting out in getting my CNA (certified nursing assistant) I start that on Monday!! Well I have always went back and forth on what in nursing I want to do and I started thinking about neonatal and I am curious do you have to go to school particularly for that or could I become a RN and choose to go work in the neonatal unit? I'm not sure if that's how it works or when I go back if I should talk to the college about changing my classes
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- gunsrfunmgLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
You get your degree in nursing and then get certified in neonatal care. You don't have to be a CNA before becoming an RN.
- Pooky™Lv 77 years ago
http://www.rn.ca.gov/careers/steps.shtml
You do not have to become a certified nursing assistant to become a registered nurse later.
I need to point this out – I have been a nurse for 20 years, and have known many people who want to go into pediatric or neonatal nurse. Many of them have the misconception that they are there to play with the patients. That is not the fact at all. You are too busy to do so, and many of them are extremely sick and some will die on you. Furthermore you will have to do many painful procedures on them. The first time I had to start an IV on a two-day-old baby, my knees were shaking.
If you can handle that fact, then I wish you best of luck.
