What would you say?

[nurse12b]

I have been a CNA for several yrs now and I am getting ready to go to nursing school. I was talking to some of my friends that are a semester ahead of me in nursing school. They were talking about what they have been doing on clinicals, and basicly it's being a CNA and one of the girls said "I can't wait till I am a Nurse I am never going to do and aids work again" :trout: I looked at her am my mouth could not open fast enough. I told her why the heck are you becomming a nurse. I told her that if she has that attitude once she is a nurse she will not be liked very much by any cna and they can make her job hard and I hated when nurses acted like that a cna wasn't part of their job. Hello that is why they are teaching you how to be a cna because IT TO IS PART OF HER JOB!!!!! If she didn't want to take care of the crapy part of medical care she should find another job, so someone else that didn't mind, could have her place. Anyway she was taking it back after I said that to her and she said she really didn't mean for it to come out like that. (yeah right) So what would you say? Or have you ever had a situation like that?

[florianslove]

I do work with nurses who feel that toileting a resident, getting a resident up, etc. is CNA work. That is a dangerous way to think. As a unit manager I feel the nurses on my wing and the CNA's are a team. We have a particularly difficult resident, she's 104 (not a typo) and is very very difficult to do AM care alone. Most mornings myself or the floor nurse will go in with the CNA and try to get the job done. If a light is going off, I will go in and answer it, it a fairly ambulatory res wants to go to the bathroom, I will take them. I will call on the CNA if it is a two person assist. We're in this together, we have to support and respect each other. This may sound idealistic, but I feel my job is anything that makes my residents more comfortable. CNA's are the backbone of any facility and should be treated as such.

Good day all.

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