The CNA-to-Nursing Launchpad
Pass the CNA exam, then keep climbing toward nursing school.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
Certification first, career second: step-by-step CNA skills demonstrations and written-exam walkthroughs to clear the test, plus the medical terminology, anatomy foundations, vitals reference, and med-school-grade study strategies that make the next rung - LPN or RN - reachable. Six courses, one ladder.
What you'll learn
- Perform the CNA skills exam procedures step by step
- Handle written-exam questions with practiced walkthroughs
- Read and build medical terms from roots, prefixes, and suffixes
- Explain the body systems nursing coursework assumes
- Study with the strategies med students actually use
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from CNA Skills Test Prep: Step-by-Step Demonstrations
The Skills You Are Graded On
Step-by-step demonstrations of the skills the practical exam actually scores. Watch the motion, then rehearse it.
8 lessons · 50m
How to Make an Occupied Bed | CNA Skills for Prometric Exam · How to Perform Range of Motion for Elbow and Wrist | CNA Skills for Prometric Exam · How to Perform Range of Motion for Hip, Knee, and Ankle | CNA Skills for Prometric Exam
Module 2 · from CNA Written Exam Practice: Question Walkthroughs
Orientation and Full Practice Tests
An orientation plus three full practice sessions with worked answers. The four one-minute channel promos sitting between them are left out.
4 lessons · 4h 6m · hand-picked from 8
CNA Exam: Welcome and Orientation · Live Prometric CNA Practice Test Review with Nurse Eunice · Day 3: LIVE CNA Practice Exam Review Questions with Nurse Eunice!
Module 3 · from Medical Terminology: Learn the Language of Medicine
Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Word building, so unfamiliar terms become decodable rather than memorised one at a time.
8 lessons · 1h 45m
Medical Terminology - The Basics - Lesson 1 · Medical Terminology - The Basics - Lesson 1 | Practice and Example Problems · Medical Terminology – The Basics – Lesson 1 | Practice Problems Set 2
Module 4 · from Anatomy & Physiology: The Complete Crash Course
Tissues and the Integumentary System
Crash Course A&P from the beginning. The systems view that nursing school assumes on day one.
8 lessons · 1h 14m
Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology Preview · Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #1 · Tissues, Part 1: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #2
Module 5 · from Study Strategies from Med School Insiders
How People Who Got In Actually Study
Active recall, spacing, and flashcard technique from people who survived a far harder curriculum.
8 lessons · 1h 17m
Study LESS, Study SMART – What I Wish I Knew in College · How to STUDY When You DON'T FEEL LIKE IT! · POMODORO TECHNIQUE - My Favorite Tool to Improve Studying and Productivity
Module 6 · from Vital Signs & Head-to-Toe Assessment
Vital Signs Mastery
Normal ranges, technique traps, and when to escalate. The reference that carries from CNA work into nursing school.
2 lessons · 4m
Normal Ranges and Technique Traps · The Head-to-Toe System and When to Escalate