Is it normal for them to just let us take care of the pt's on our own?? - Page 3

On my first day of clincals I went to the Alzheimer's ward alone, granted there was about 3 other CNA's there. The rest of the student CNA's paired off into groups of two. We could not use a lift without the supervision of another CNA or our instructor was there to see us do it. After that we could do it on our own as long as we had another CNA student there with us. After the first day of clinicals we were each assigned one patient to tend to by ourselves.

I would not say its normal because in my clinical we couldn't transfer residents or be alone with them in the showers for liability reasons. 2 students does not equal a CNA.