You would be better off getting a job at the home. The nursing home environment is imo the best way to develop a personal relationship with your "patients" and develop those patient care skills as some of the tasks you do can be a bit personal and degrading, and you can practice eliciting the trust of a "patient" and ensuring their comfort as you perform a more personal procedure such as helping them to the bathroom, peri-cares, catheter care etc etc. Now on its own, nursing homes won't do everything for you as you should go see the environment that a doctor spends most of their time in, but it sounds like you've covered some of that. I have talked to a woman on the admission's board for the medical school on my campus and she says they prefer to see the CNA in the nursing home experience because it is very personal and shows that you are comfortable interacting with and caring for a "patient" in any manner. I did the whole CNA thing and I worked a ton (80-88 hours/week on several occasions) and I developed extraordinary relationships with the residents I cared for. I 100% recommend it and in the end, what you do can often be less important than what you got out of the experience and how you are able to talk about it in your applications and in your interviews.
