How long do you change a resident?

Okay, first of all, you should always use soapy water when cleaning someone that is incontinent. If you don't, the area just doesn't get cleaned as properly

Secondly, it's not really a bed bath if you only wash the resident's legs and peri area, more like a partial one?

Is it taking you half an hour to just change them, or change them, plus redo the bed?

I usually take like 4 minutes cleaning a resident that has just urinated, maybe 6 minutes for a moderate amount of #2, but sometimes I take closer to 12 minutes with the really really soiled ones. Plus a minute running the water and 2-5 minutes to redo a bed, depending on how soiled it is. We have a lot of residents per cna at my LTC, so we have to move fast

This isn't including the "prep time." At the beginning of my shift, I go to each room and pull out 2 or more briefs, a few towels, washcloths, the soap and peri cream, and anything else I will need for the day. This can save a lot of time, especially towards the middle of your shift, when things can get very busy

I've been working prn for a few months now and I still feel like I'm so behind the people that have been working for years. Sometimes I feel like they'll fire me because I'm too slow and sometimes I need help moving a resident, because I'm not that strong. It's really stressful at times, and my coworkers don't help Guess we just gotta persevere

When I first started as am aide, it probably took me about the same time to change an incontinent resident. No worries. It will get better! By the time I quit being an aide, I was changing residents in under 5 minutes.

Absolutely don't start working "less carefully and less cleanly". That's how accidents and injuries happen. When I started working as a CNA, I was the exact same way. I was terrified to touch my residents because I was so nervous that I would break them. I was horribly slow! I promise, it will get better and you will become faster. Now, this isn't to say to rush through your residents and just to think of them as a number until you're done, but it is possible to provide them with quality care and not take 20 minutes to do so (now, if there is a case where there is BM everywhere and all over a catheter, it is entirely expected to take longer than if you were cleaning someone up who had only voided).

And as for the nurses and other CNAs who say that you take too long, they clearly don't remember what it's like to be brand new at a job. Ignore any remarks they have about how long it takes you to do something, take a deep breath, and just keep getting the hang of it. You WILL get better!

I'm a new Cna and I understand what your saying . It does take a long time sometimes depending on the person becouse patient can be annoying sometimes . Don't feel bad it's a lot of work !!! But practice makes perfect