Trying to avoid undesirable CNA duties

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Does anybody know of any CNA jobs where you don't have to wash the patients or or wipe butts? Also I'm a sophomore BSN student with an associates in engineering and 6 months volunteer work at a hospital and worked in plant engineering at another hospital. Might any of this helps with job oppertunities where I don't have to wipe or wash people?

Does anybody know of any CNA jobs where you don't have to wash the patients or or wipe butts? Also I'm a sophomore BSN student with an associates in engineering and 6 months volunteer work at a hospital and worked in plant engineering at another hospital. Might any of this helps with job oppertunities where I don't have to wipe or wash people?

I am a nursing instructor and I tell my students that as a nurse you never get too "big" to not do personal care. It goes with the job. It is part of holistic nursing, and more, part of caring for a fellow human being. I suggest you rethink your job future.

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This post is offensive to me. I am a BSN nurse for 10 years and still assist with bathing and toileting. You will never make it in this field with an attitude of "I'm too good for ass wiping". I would change careers now. Nursing is not glamorous like the shows on TV. Maybe you should go back into engineering if you think that was so great.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.
I can't help but notice there hasn't been any kind of response from the OP.

I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.:smokin:

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I am not sure why you are becoming a nurse. All of those things that you mentioned are part of nursing. It is not about you and what you want as a nurse. It is all about the patient and their well being and comfort. As a compassionate nurse, you would not question your duties. Being a nurse is more than passing pills. Please rethink your careers.

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Specializes in Pediatric OR.

I can not believe that you can not find other functions of your job as more valuable than "butt wiping and washing". Being a nurse's aid can be rewarding in other ways. Learn how to speak to patients, what makes them comfortable, things that you may not have time for once you have graduated and are busy with all of your other duties that take away spending valuable time with patients. Don't look at it as negative, please look at it as caring.

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I have a suggestion for miss goody two shoes - engineer. pack your nursing books and get out of nursing school. You wil be doing the profession a favor. Let me know if you need help packing.

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Specializes in LTC.
I don't see how the OP is lazy just because she's reluctant to the tasks she mentioned. It's not everyone's cup of tea, and calling her lazy just because of her preference is rude.

I don't think having an aversion = lazy either, nor do I expect everybody in the world to be A-OK with butts, but I can certainly see why people are not responding positively to her inquiry. Like someone else said, she could have asked for advice on how to overcome her reluctance, or at least phrased the question differently so it was less offensive (I mean look at the title of the thread!). No one LIKES cleaning poop but most of us CNAs either don't mind it or have gotten past it. And I'm sure we have all worked with *that* nurse that avoids booty duty at all costs, and not because she has other things only a licensed person can attend to, but just because it's gross and that's a CNA's job. And there are threads on this site made by students who resent having to do dirty work at clinical and think they will be safe from it once they graduate. It's frustrating and I can see why people are telling her she has no business becoming a nurse.

Personally I love and respect animals, but their poop grosses me out. I can deal with human waste waaaaay more easily than animal stuff, which is probably one of the reasons I'm a CNA and not a vet tech. I would never dream of going on a site for vet techs and asking "How can I get out of dealing with gross animal stuff." Because THAT'S rude.

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.:smokin:

And there will not be. Especially since this is an RN board. (not that that is bad.)

Poor poster got basically jumped by non-CNAs for asking a honest career question!

And to you RNs who came out wearing your "real nurse" badge telling this person to get the heck out of nursing, remember this: You can be hands-on when you want to be (or are forced to by cheap administrators). You can also get to work with a variety of pretty cool things and have your choice of fields to go into. You get to have input and a professional opinion. A CNA can only do behind wiping and maybe i/o, vitals, and paperwork no one looks at in a majority of places.

Don't you think asking if it was possible to do be able to do more things with CNA besides that is a valid career question?

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
And there will not be. Especially since this is an RN board. (not that that is bad.)

Poor poster got basically jumped by non-CNAs for asking a honest career question!

And to you RNs who came out wearing your "real nurse" badge telling this person to get the heck out of nursing, remember this: You can be hands-on when you want to be (or are forced to by cheap administrators). You can also get to work with a variety of pretty cool things and have your choice of fields to go into. You get to have input and a professional opinion. A CNA can only do behind wiping and maybe i/o, vitals, and paperwork no one looks at in a majority of places.

Don't you think asking if it was possible to do be able to do more things with CNA besides that is a valid career question?

The OP specifically stated career goals. The goal is to obtain BSN, not to be a career CNA. Otherwise I might agree with you.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I do! I just wish the OP would come back and share what he/she has in mind. I went non-traditional in nursing and I am glad.

Not that I wouldn't or couldn't wipe a butt, but the people I work with would run as far as fast as they could............:lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

I still think OP should look into being a vampire/phleb..

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Specializes in Oral care, diabetes, caries management.

I guess I understand your feeling as if the question writer shouldn't be a nurse, I get that. I take issue with the idea that if he/she is not interested in certain duties, that makes them arrogant. If you decide you don't want to do heart surgery, does that make you seem better than a heart surgeon??

I don't want to help people with that level of ADL either but I don't think people think I'm better than them. I don't want to teach 5th graders either, that doesn't mean I think 5th grade teachers are less than me or bad or stupid.

This questioner has a valid question and assuming they think they're better than you because you don't mind wiping butts is a complication in communication on your part.

I'm not sure why I feel motivated to respond to this thread rather a hundred others but I do.

Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH, FACE

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Specializes in IMCU.

Bathing a patient is the best time to do a full skin assessment. As is pericare for the focused perineal skin assessment. It can save your patient's life.

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