Thank You Cna's!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, ED, Psych.

I am a RN on a very busy 27-bed Med/Surg unit. I want to thank all those hard working Nurse Assistants for their guts, courage, empathy, emotional strength, physical strength, compassion, and professionalism. Without you my jobs as an RN would be next to impossible. Thank you so much for bathing my patients, turning them, providing skin care, taking vital signs and alerting me of potential life and death situatons, for providing post-mortum care, and so much more. Often as Nurse Assistants we RN's have a tendency to forget to thank you. I will have been working without an aide for a couple of days because we are short staffed and I need you CNA's to return. Its hard without you guys! Keep up the good work

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I am a RN on a very busy 27-bed Med/Surg unit. I want to thank all those hard working Nurse Assistants for their guts, courage, empathy, emotional strength, physical strength, compassion, and professionalism. Without you my jobs as an RN would be next to impossible. Thank you so much for bathing my patients, turning them, providing skin care, taking vital signs and alerting me of potential life and death situatons, for providing post-mortum care, and so much more. Often as Nurse Assistants we RN's have a tendency to forget to thank you. I will have been working without an aide for a couple of days because we are short staffed and I need you CNA's to return. Its hard without you guys! Keep up the good work

Thats really nice of you, abbaking! I see so many threads from RNs who go on and on about how lazy and incompetent their CNA's or LNA's are and its really discouraging...

its great to hear that you appreciate all the hard work your aides do for you!! :nuke:

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

You're welcome! I always try to help my nurses with anything they need, even if I'm not assigned to that patient (you need post-transfusion vitals? help pulling a pt up? I'm on it!)

We work a busy 28-bed M/S floor, and we were full to the brim last night, with just two CNAs. My nurses were great! They always helped me turn, pull, clean patients, and even helped me with vitals. Once or twice, they would come up to me and say "Mrs. So-and-so in Room XXX was on the bedpan, she had a small bowel movement," and I would look up at them and it wasn't even their patient! I felt so appreciated. We have such a great team.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.
I am a RN on a very busy 27-bed Med/Surg unit. I want to thank all those hard working Nurse Assistants for their guts, courage, empathy, emotional strength, physical strength, compassion, and professionalism. Without you my jobs as an RN would be next to impossible. Thank you so much for bathing my patients, turning them, providing skin care, taking vital signs and alerting me of potential life and death situatons, for providing post-mortum care, and so much more. Often as Nurse Assistants we RN's have a tendency to forget to thank you. I will have been working without an aide for a couple of days because we are short staffed and I need you CNA's to return. Its hard without you guys! Keep up the good work

I agree 100%. Thank you to all you hardworking CNA's!!!

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Specializes in NICU.

You guys are great! Seriously, we couldn't do our jobs without you. I love working as a team and jump in to help clean up patients, etc., but I know you guys get stuck with a lot--so thanks! I was a CNA first and it was really beneficial to have that background before I became a nurse.

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Wow! Thats really nice of you to say! Thanks for saying such great things about CNA's :)

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Specializes in hospice, and home health.

It sure makes us feel like the job we do is beneficial and that we are needed. Thanks for your words of encouragement.

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Specializes in none as of yet.

:Melody: thank you abbaker!! it certaining feels good to hear that every now and then...and as I have always said to family and friends, you owe a nurse a hug!! nurses have always been my hero!! so coming from a nurse, that means alot!!:imbar

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Specializes in long term care, Rehab.

it is great to hear a heartfelt thank you!! sometimes its the little things that keep you going. make sure you tell your aides thank you each and everyday, it really makes them strive to be the best they can be

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