[janfrn]

Daytonite, the nursing assistants in my unit do absolutely no hands-on care. No baths, no turns, no boosting up in bed, no diaper changes, no feeds, no linen changes, nada. They restock bedside carts, empty urometers, fold linen, run specimens to the lab and pick up blood products from the blood bank. They don't even set up for admissions or change suction canisters. All of that is my job. It's a huge problem for all of us, because we're not staffed to allow for them not to be in there helping, and they're resentful that they're not allowed.

I do agree than most of the types of nursing work that doesn't involve any exposure to body fluids are the ones you have to work in the trenches to get. How do we trust someone giving us advice over the phone who hasn't actually spent time working in bedside care?