kayvia

Thanks so much for your response. And we are in Illinois so now I know it is not legal. Frankly I'm happy to 'not' hear a bunch of folks telling me that it's SOP and not to worry -- because I would worry and most importantly want my daughter to start out her career practicing good, legal, safe and loving care. We'll spend time this weekend working on polite ways of saying no to this request if it comes up in this LTC.

Thanks to everyone for the responses and I'm really happy to hear that this is not something that they are familiar with/common practice! My daughter had 'learned' in CNA class that she was never to give meds "even if an RN told her to" and so asked me if that was the case after her shaddowing day. To the poster who wondered if she was making it up, that's not her style and no, she wouldn't. Like a couple poster's suggested it IS possible that the CNA (definately not an LPN she'd asked) was hanging feeding bags not IVs -- she doesn't have the experience to know the difference. But the oral meds pass was equally concerning to me since so much could go wrong. I had discouraged her from pursuing a job in that LTC -- and am happy to hear that it's unlikely she'll see the same thing where she took a job. Thanks to the person who recommended reading "couldn't beleive he did this"...gave me the willies but thanks.

Hi I'm an RN who no longer works in Healthcare. My 20 year old daughter just got her first job as a CNA in an LTC/Rehab center (she's doing her pre-reqs now for BSN program next fall). Here is my question, at a different LTC that she had applied to she shadowed a CNA (not med tech) for the day. When she got home she said the CNA passed all the meds and hung bags of what to my daughter looked like IV meds but I'm not sure she'd know... To me this seems totally out of scope of practice for a CNA and rather freaked me out (but I only ever worked in hosptials). So the question is, how does she handle this if she is asked to do this in her first 'real' job? Is this common? Is my reaction unreasonable? I'm figuring forewarned is forearmed so any other advice for her would also be welcome. Thanks!