How do CNAs "shave" patients?

Let me tell you the razors you get to use are so cheap .. I had to shave a patients chest for ekg leads once and I went over the area at least 10 times and still didn't remove enough hair.

When I was a CNA, we used electric clippers to remove chest hair and do groin prep for heart caths.

Here in MI we only shave our male clients, and only trim female clients when supervised by an RN. We're only responsibly for shaving the male face & sometimes the female client that may grow a beard and we may shave that if she allows it. But again, there's no shaving of the pubic hairs

I have to shave the male and female residents at work and it's no big deal. Sometimes they get nicked if they jerk their head, but usually not. If you can shave your legs, you can shave someone's face.

I had one woman ask me to shave her legs in the shower before and that was kind of awkward and time consuming. It's not my job to do that (we have spa aids who handle things like that) and I didn't want to do it because I didn't really have time, but I didn't know how to tell her no without insulting her. There's another woman with a full bush that gets in the way during peri-care and we may have to do something about that. I don't want to be the one to take the hedge trimmers to that mess.