you know you're a CNA when...

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...you can change six BM briefs in a row, and then sit down at the desk and eat a Tootsie Roll before you realize what you're doing. :wideyed:

when you are entering a room (bathroom, or whatever that's NOT a patient's room) and you knock before entering! lol :wacky:

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hope you washed you hands :))

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Specializes in Adult Cardiac ICU.

When you feel the urge to greet and smile at every elderly person you see in public

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Specializes in Short Term/Skilled.

You leave a room after cleaning and positioning an 85lb woman who doesn't wear a brief due to poor skin integrity. Afterwards, in the hallway, someone asks what is all over your scrubs.

You look down, remember liberally applying calazime lotion to your patients rear, prior to re-positioning, and exclaim....

"Well, THAT is a butt print"

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You yourself have a BM and you look in the toilet and say that is a "large" or man that is a "small".

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Specializes in hospice.
You leave a room after cleaning and positioning an 85lb woman who doesn't wear a brief due to poor skin integrity. Afterwards, in the hallway, someone asks what is all over your scrubs.

You look down, remember liberally applying calazime lotion to your patients rear, prior to re-positioning, and exclaim....

"Well, THAT is a butt print"

OMG :***: I think I would have to run home and burn my scrubs!

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You have the urge to chart your own BMs.

Yes!

You hear call lights while trying to fall asleep.

You suddenly remember room 105 wanted a glass of water...as you're falling asleep.

You've been sloppily kissed on the arm while repositioning a dying resident.

You offer a difficult resident who was fighting you a hug and she kisses you on the cheek.

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Specializes in geriatrics, dementia, ortho.

You can mentally juggle and prioritize the needs of 10+ patients, and plan your route around the unit accordingly (including knowing which ones will try to flag you down even if you're carrying a heavy food tray and bag of trash, so you detour in order to avoid their path!).

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Specializes in hospice.
You hear call lights while trying to fall asleep.

This happens to me and I HATE it! :sour:

Or I dream about work and it's always a crazy stressful situation. Not fair!

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This happens to me and I HATE it! :sour:

Or I dream about work and it's always a crazy stressful situation. Not fair!

I always tell my boss I should get paid for working in my dreams. I wake up exhausted and anxious since obviously, in my dream, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

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Specializes in Short Term/Skilled.
OMG :***: I think I would have to run home and burn my scrubs!

Nah, it was a clean bum. I cleaned it myself, hahaha. Never did come out, either.

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