CNA questions! HELP!

[Carissa2929]

I have some questions below:

1. I haven't gotten a job as a cna yet and I wanted to give it a try, but I have forgotten some of the skills and am worried that when I am hired I will not know what to do. Do you have anything to say on that or is there any way I could freshen up my skills? (I took the cna course last summer and am certified by the state.)

2. Do clinics such as Prevea, Bellin, or Aurora Baycare take cna's? If they do what rolls do they do?

3. Is there a facility that takes cnas for children or any other facility for cnas other than a hospital or long term care?

I am asking these questions because I want to work as a cna but I hate all the messy work that goes into being one. I was hoping there would be a cna role that would do different things. I was thinking about a hospital but I am afraid that I will mess up on lack of knowledge and I just don't care too much for the messy work that goes into doing that. I always thought that there were cna's that worked in clinics or hospitals that got trained to do different work and different roles.

I am working on getting my bachelors in RN and need some extra money so I thought of trying a cna role.

Thank you!!

[Tashbun]

I'm not sure where you live but I've never seen a cna in a clinic setting, only MAs. cna work isn't all messy work, but it's a big part. Sitters def still have to do messy work, just for that pt solely. And I hope you don't take the pov of not helping the cna with the messy work, that won't really help you make friends at work or have pleasant work experiences with cnas.

[Livetoride]

No offense but you do realize that you will be doing CNA work your whole nursing career? You will not always have a CNA on hand that can do the messy work. Anytime I've stayed in the hospital, I've only seen a PCT one time. the nurse is changing the bed, helping me with my ADLs postpartum or cleaning up bm, blood and vomit.

I have never seen a CNA in a clinic setting. Not saying it does not exist cause I heard that too. Maybe you're better off going the route of a MA if that's what you would like.

[SweetPotatoes]

All the nurses on my hospital floor do what the CNAs do...CNA tasks are kinda built into the RN role, but the RN has 879798990 other things to do on top of it--night shift nurses in particular have it rough because there aren't always techs at night and then they have to do all the call lights, bathing, and weights. A lot of the new RNs who were never techs struggled in the beginning with transfers and baths and walking patients and stuff, so it's good experience if you can get over the whole messy work thing. I HATE smells and bodily fluids but since I want to actually do this, I get over it. And launder my scrubs thoroughly when I get home. lol. You may surprise yourself--if you really want to be a CNA you may not mind the mess as much as you think you might!

[PTurner89]

We sitters don't do any work huh??? We do personalized work! We bathe them, feed them, give them meds, bandage them, take them to appts.,

We help them up every time they need it we wipe all their tears, we soothe them, take them outside for air, check their mail, clean them up when they spill something on themselves, change their pull ups constantly, we are their friend when they need one,their housekeeper, are you kidding me? We comfort them and may get hit or slapped right after, if they have Alzheimer's we have to be in the ball all day 12 hrs a day. They may try and escape get out of their chair grab the table as we pass it . Idk what your trying to say exactly but you are dead wrong. We are your helper. Does that make us scum? No you should be more appreciative not bitter. We get treated like dirt by CNAs and you complain because your treated like dirt by whoever is above you!! Get your priorities straight.