Attention CNAs

[Lrodrig1089]

If I can please have yall cnas undevided attention for a minute please..??

I would like to read about your experiences as cnas?? Im a pre nursing student really debating over the option of becoming a cna before nursing school, as im in desperate need of a job or will be in about a month after I give birth. Yes I know that being a cna will help me further on in nursing school by getting ahead of time and gaining experience..but my true question is.. Does it really suck being a cna? Ive heard really disappointing stories about them being under-estimated by nurses and patients and also do you really deal with the gross part of nursing?(bodily fluids, wiping and cleaning them) im just afraid I wont be able to survive those situation as I am a little intolerant to those kinds of things. Is there any of you guys that had a hard time in the beginning getting used to the yucky stuff but eventually did as you got more and more exposed to such thing?? I just wonder and hope its possible!! Im just so terrified I wont like it but I would really like to push myself to do it since I wanna get into that type of ebvironment in case I do find it interesting...but of course I know that nurses are also exposed to those nasty situations except their more inclined to the delegating, charting and decision-making part of a patients recovery which is what I like...so please give me your side of the story and how you managed personally with the duties and general idea of being a cna...

[WCSU1987]

Fiancée is a CNA it all depends on location and work. I work as a tech in a psych hospital so some difference, but mostly the same.

Kind of dumbfounded when my fiancée was going on about nurse's not helping with ADLS of a patient. We work as a team where we are clean the patients, feed the patients, and so forth.

Thought about getting my CNA license for the extra cash on the side, but first few months of nursing school can work as a CNA in my state. They pay Nursing Student Assistants more money I heard then CNAs.

[socal1]

i would say CNA is more physically demanding because your always walking or running around, and when its not an obese patient you change them usually yourself. if they are a total care patient than the nurse would come in and help.

[Zyprexa_Ho]

if they are a total care patient than the nurse would come in and help.

LOL....

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

Im afraid of what my reaction might be the moment I am in an extreme situation like seeing blood all over the place or having to be exposed to excess diarrhea or vomit...im afraid ill panic what if I don't know what to do which is why im curious to know if its something you can actually be trained how to handle or its something you'll learn to get used to with time....

Well, you mentioned having a baby -- better get use to it, because you'll be dealing with a lot of poop and vomit pretty soon.