Do you like being a CNA?

Nursing Students CNA/MA

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Like or hate being a CNA? Why or why not? So many people are telling me how much they hate it and they are "certified butt wipers." I hate that name. Yeah it's a demanding job that does dirty work--but people need CNAs or "certified butt wipers."

If it was one thing I hated--it's the coworkers and workers who treat patients horrible.

What's your view?

I love it because every one that Ive taken care of,they have such amazing stories.They are full of stories. I just imagine myself in their position. How would I want to be treated,how embarrassing would this be to me to have someone clean me up....I love working with people young and old and always will....

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Specializes in Dialysis.

I like being a CNA and being able to spend time looking at my dementia pts in the eye. They look back and smile. I like catching issues at their onset and reporting it before it becomes a real problem. I like getting to know people. What I hate: being dumped on by supervisors for not being 3 places at once. I can't answer call lights, give showers, pass trays, chart, morning care all at once. There is a time for everything and only one at a time. I hate being expected to give the same quality of care when we are understaffed AND under supplied. Out of briefs? deal. Out of wipes? use a rag. Oh! You are out of rags? Deal. I am a big believer in staffing for acuity.... 32 Alzheimer's care patients need at least 4 CNAs on the floor, not 2 or 3. 8 of them are feeders.

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I like being a CNA; most of my coworkers are willing to compromise, i.e. "I'll help you clean this person if you help me transfer this other person into the shower later on." But I don't really fancy most of the administrators; most of them are out-of-the-loop MBAs who have never emptied a Foley catheter in their life, yet are trying to lecture us on how to do it.

Let's hire people who were ACTUALLY nurses to be administrators in nursing homes; it only makes sense.

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Staragate: I did my clinical in such a place. I am still traumatized by that experience.

One time I was showering an incontinent patient who defecated while in the shower. I frantically looked for a basin to catch it and could not find one; when I asked one of the managers where they kept their basins, she said she was sorry; her friend was in beauty school and did not have any basins to practice doing pedicures with, so she [the admin] gave her the ones that was supposed to be for residents. I was appalled.

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