Giving showers

pookyp, LPN · Sep 13, 2007

This may be a stupid question, but when you give showers on the morning shift, do you do it before or after breakfast? Or does it just depend on the resident? I'm wondering because I'll be starting my first CNA job on the 7-3 shift, so I was a little curious.
It just seems crazy trying to get up 8-10 people in an hour for breakfast, when some of them have showers.

I used to give my patients a shower after breakfast. Just because I have to get so many other patients up. Plus depending on what they had for breakfast, they can get a litlle sticky and stuff.. lol

LPNEMSCT · Sep 13, 2007

Hi DreamyEyes,

I am a LPN student and right now we are doing clinicals a nursing home. From what I see, most get showered before breakfast but probably will depend on the facility that you work in and also the residents preference.

Erika

bethin · Sep 14, 2007

The rare times that I do ltc now there are one or two that prefer it before breakfast but the manager has it so they don't get their showers on the same day as we only have one shower room. I start my shift at 0630, get report, do a bath on a complete and then do a shower at 0700 and then try to finish up before breakfast. We only have 10 residents on our ltc unit in a hospital so it does make it much easier to get things done. I don't know if this would work in a regular ltcf. I'm sure you would have more than 5 people to bathe. I prefer doing showers before breakfast because I HATE doing them and I like to get them out of the way.

Knorremeisje · Sep 20, 2007

It's always about the resident/patient. Sometimes to the point where you feel like you're working in a hotel rather than a hospital/nursing home!

I've had people wanting to shower even before I got a chance to get report in the morning (6am!) and other people don't want to shower until right before they go to bed, while even others could care less when and if they shower! :)