I’ll be going into nursing school this January. Currently, since my pre-reqs this semester are online, I work retail full-time. I worked part time briefly (about a month) as a patient care tech in a hospital, but I had to leave due to scheduling conflicts. My plan is to stay at my retail job part time during semester 1. In my state, you can take the CNA test after a semester of nursing school, which I plan to do. Semester 2 onward, I would like to work as a PCT in a hospital again, and getting my CNA opens up more possibilities as our hospitals only hire non-CNA techs on a handful of floors.