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How do you know you’re a CNA?
See if you recognize yourself in the following tongue-in-cheek list, compiled by a former CNA who’s been there, done that.
1. You never leave home without your back brace and gait belt.
2. You change more linens than a hotel maid.
3. You have at least 20 sets of adoptive grandparents.
4. You keep up with the number of BMs your family has.
5. The beds in your home are made with “hospital corners.”
6. You can easily feed three or more people at one time.
7. You don’t get grossed out by what you find in adult briefs.
8. You can find 101+ uses for towels, sheets and pillowcases.
9. When your spouse holds your hand, you catch yourself doing range-of-motion exercises.
10. You tell your spouse that he/she is facing the wrong way at the wrong time in bed.
Hi! I am Russian- American,and I am licensed. CNA. Me going to college and I want to be a nurse practitioner, because I am spoil and no wont to work on minimum wages, but I may to work part time, and may be I will.
Every new nurse should have to “work” in a CNA’s shoes for at least 2 weeks! Day shift! Appreciate those I work with!
LOL amen Nancy G!! Maybe that would stop some of that crazy hateful behavior! Love these posts! Too cute!
Rachael you rock!
Ok here’s mine
When you accidently walk in on your hubby urinating and declare he should have more fluids.
do you ever find yourself knocking on closed doors at your own house or answering the phone with your name and the floor you are working on?
Only two weeks? I think every person that wants to be a nurse should spend one year as a CNA in long term care…one year in acute care setting… one year as a LPN in long term care… one year in acute care setting. The majority of RN’s today are lazy and have NO clue what it’s like to work in each of these levels. The best RN’s are those that have worked their way up thru the ranks. I’d rather have an excellent CNA care for me than a RN… any day!
What about CMA’s? They are just as important. Nobody ever recognizes them for anything. They are the nurses right hand and eyes and ears on the floor
I came up through the ranks. First, as N.A. in long-term care for about 2 yrs, then in a hospital on the tele unit for about 1-2 yrs, then I got educated more, I became an L.P.N. and worked in the same hospital for about a yr, then went back to long-term care for about 3 yrs, then moved and worked in a hospital again for 11 yrs, and went back to college and got my R.N. degree. I developed Crohn’s Disease while I was working and attending college. I finally had to stop working and am now on disability. I cared for my husband until he passed away last yr. and am now caring for my mom with help. I still miss working.with patients, nurses, doctors and families.
Nancy Geddings, RN. I agree every nurse should have to work as a CNA, but not dayshift…. evening shift. Every place I have ever worked, daylight has a few gotten up by midnight shift. We put everyone to bed, and still get told we take too much time. Or about how we were told 15/16 patients a piece if an RN would leave early we could have a 3rd person.
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