Becoming a CNA requires schooling where I live. I think it's a 2 year school. I see that CNA jobs are like doing all the stuff that a nurse doesn't want to do. When I was in the hospital for 2 weeks last summer, I had one awesome CNA. She would help me go to the bathroom and shower until I was able to take that back on myself. She would change my linens, take my vitals, bring me things I needed, and empty the thing... I forget what it was called, but I had this thing sucking all the toxins out of my body and she would have to empty it. She was being a CNA while in training to be a nurse, and I told her that she was going to be an amazing nurse and left a glowing comment for her at the hospital.

My mother-in-law used to be a home health aid and she said back then she was a high school drop out and started out "washing butts" as she puts it.