My first day of clinicals

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lol wow! you know you go through theory & everything is fun. Your learning and yadda, yadda, yadda and them boom, you hit the floor and your like ***?! lol because I am so focused on becoming a nurse I know what I have to do but at the same time i can see how people hate and drop out of the CNA program.

I don't wanna go into detail but lets just say wow! 13 more clinicals lets make the best of them. Good luck to all you new CNAs, stick it out regardless.

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we only have four 4-hour days in clinicals! my first day is next tuesday.

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bro! the second day was today & It was super fun, besides the fact that my feet hurt! other then that, it was great! I love my residents! It is so funny that all that I have slept, breath, and ate for the past few months is nursing! I love it!

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Specializes in VA-BC, CRNI.
bro! the second day was today & It was super fun, besides the fact that my feet hurt! other then that, it was great! I love my residents! It is so funny that all that I have slept, breath, and ate for the past few months is nursing! I love it!

Wait until you are taking a patient to the bathroom and he soaks your brand new $80 Pumas in CDIFF laced diarrhea. Sucked so bad I could only laugh...even when it was making a squishy noise as I walked out the bathroom...as if I was a 8 year old who spent the day jumping in rain puddles. :yeah:

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Or just wait until you put that bedpan on a woman who sticks her butt up in the air and sprays you instead of the bedpan! Not fun, but I survived

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I finished the CNA course almost two months ago, I'm just waiting to take the boards. All I can say is that I had so much fun, the whole course was like going to summer camp as a kid. I had a 93 yrs old women (bless her heart) saying the most slutty things to me during pericare! The girls in my class were getting their boobs grabbed by an 80 yrs old lady, apprently she was gay. They all had severe dementia, so it was pretty funny. I had a story to tell everyday after clinicals. I know one day when I'm done with school, I'm gonna look back and just laugh my ass off.

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Specializes in LTC.

That's my favorite aspect of the job- the funny things demented people say and do.

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Best of luck to you!

When I'm pushing two residents down the hall coming from the dining room the little voice inside me says, "All aboard the alzheimer's express". :clown:

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Yeah, reality check, huh? Just know that what you're learning now will be INVALUABLE as your career progresses. I've worked in home care with nurses who never learned the basics, and they can make a bedbound pt's life a living hell not knowing how to turn, position, clean etc etc.

Now, I just wish I could convince my son to be a CNA!! Any ideas? :)

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we only have four 4-hour days in clinicals! my first day is next tuesday.

Where do you start? What school??

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I was freaked out by clinicals. Nothing was done even CLOSE to the way we were trained, there were only close approximations. As far as gloves, sure, but the CNA I was assigned to might wear the same gloves room to room unless they had poo on them. Dirty clothes, linens, briefs, were tossed on the floor. And as far as respecting patient modesty, uh, no such thing. I saw way too much 80 y.o. skin. I'd never seen what a seriously aged rear end looks like, while wiping or not, man that is some depressing stimuli. I'm in my 40's and it's just difficult to accept that level of deterioration without a suicide back up.

So after those two weeks, I started watching videos, studying my student guide and practicing again. I'm not going to say that clinicals were a bad thing because that was reality, and interacting with patients made it worthwhile. I'm just saying that if all I ever did was work in a LTC facility with no classroom training, there's no way I would pass the state exam. Still waiting for my test date...

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I started my clinicals on Wed. and had so much fun. After months of classroom time I was excited to apply all that knowledge I learned. Things are so different in the "real world". I love the residents so much...and they seem to like me...even the nasty ones!!! My only complaint was none of the staff wore thier PPE for the MRSA residents. They only wore gloves!!? What's up with that?

:eek::eek::eek:

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