Male CNA - Female Patients

[cjcsoon2bnp]

Ok y'all I need some opinions or experiences on this. I would like to how your hospital or LTC facility handles a male CNA doing personal care for a female patient. I'm a relatively new CNA and in my training my female patients were relatively independent and there were so many teachers and nurses going around that I wasn't alone with any of my patients for very long. I have no problem with providing any of the care and would be fine with stepping out if a patient said they were uncomfortable with a guy providing their personal care but I want to make sure that I'm safe as well as my license and reputation. What I mean is that I don't want to go into a female patients room to give her a toothbrush or something and then have her scream that I tried to molest her or something. Keep in mind I know that this would probably be a very rare occurrence but I know there are some people of that state of mind. I guess my question is, how do you protect yourself from that kind of thing?

!Chris

[ZanatuBelmont]

ICor9:24:

I do sometimes wonder why it's such a big deal. To me, it's just about doing my job: I have no desire to look at your "pp" in any manner other than it needs to be cleaned and protected. In other words, it's part of the job -- part of care.

There are situations, however, when I'm more inwardly tolerant of these rights, such as the faith of the resident or past sexual abuse. Otherwise, it gets rediculous to hear a female (I'm male) patient whine. I'm lucky enough not to have had many issues with caring for opposite-sex persons, except for this week - three refused my care because I'm a male.

Sheesh.

[jr3650sp]

I've been a cna a little over year and some change: the best advice i can give you is to watch who you take care of and who you work with while taking care of a patient. The lpn or rn is the first line of defense when it comes to the assigning for patient care in ltc and in any job you take there will be a seasoned cna who will alert you to who can and acan't be taken care of by a man.