RN as CNA

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Please help if you can. My job (ICU) tried to make me work as a CNA one day. I refused as I see this a legal liability.  They think otherwise. I live in NJ and our board NPA is nonspecific in this regard. I have been written up and will get fired if this happens again.  What do I do??!! It’s would have looked like I had ten patients!

Specializes in ER.

The problem is that if I work as a CNA I'm held to the standards of my own license. So if I notice and issue with a patient, report to my RN and she doesnt want to act, I'm left in a quandry.

If I don't notice an issue, possibly because I don't have all the information the RN got in her report, I'm still held to an RN standard. Either one of those situations can come back to bite me.

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So you inform the charge or you call a rapid. Even as a CNA you are still a patient advocate.

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