Does a CNA have to wipe butts?

[sssssaidthesnake]

I am thinking about becoming a CNA but I have heard some bad things, for example that I will have to wipe butts/ Is this true? Is there any where I can be a CNA and not have to do this? How can I get around it? What parts of the hospital can I work in that are not so totally gross. I can deal with surgery , just not poop.

[yousoldtheworld]

Is this a serious post? If so, I don't think you know what a CNA is. Anywhere you work as an aide, you're going to have to "wipe butts" and aides don't participate in surgery, surgical techs and the like do.

[cayenne06, MSN, CNM]

Hilarious.

[merlee]

Jeez, I was never a CNA, and worked in places where there weren't any aides. As an RN I have certainly wiped my share of butts.

I get really tired of posts with this cr^p in them.....

There are worse things than poop.

[stelon]

If you can't handle cleaning someone up, do not expect to go into nursing and succeed or be well liked by your co-workers. Whether you're the nurse or the aide, you WILL be cleaning up your patients or neglecting them for not doing so. Nursing is not an easy job and includes so much more than the tv would have you think.

[DixieRedHead, ASN, RN]

I am curious OP, what do YOU think a CNA does?

[ckh23, BSN, RN]

Don't you wipe yours?

[WannaBNursey, ADN, ASN, RN]

The terms CNA and Butt Wiper are interchangeable.

[Backtoyou2011]

I read the question wrong in the poll, but yes you will have to wipe butts and it would never deter me from a job.

[RedRobin8]

If you want to work in the hospital, it sounds like you might be better suited to be a unit secretary.

[Seas]

Yea, you never wipe butts, but they should let you do the surgery instead.

[aaron_j_sutter]

I think you need to read the book "Everybody Poops". You wipe your own, what's wrong with wiping someone elses? Just have a kid, you will get over cleaning someone elses behind very quickly.