You know you are a CNA when....

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I am a DON at a nursing home and I am going to be putting together a power point presentation for my CNA's. I really wanted to start out with something fun to help them realize how much they are appreciated. I was looking for something fun like "you know you are a CNA when..." but I couldn't find anything. Can you help me out?

Thanks

Laura

Specializes in Med Surg, Home Health.

Today my husband looked at me in awe because he had taken me to get a sub after work and he looked away for a moment...when he looked back the sub was almost gone. Him: "You're really almost done eating that?" Me: (mouth full) "Lots of practice."

My family used to leave the table before I was done eating because I ate slowly. Not any more.

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..when a resident has a poop accident all over the bathroom wall, floor, commode and you don't blink an eye or curse the day that you were born. You just clean up the resident and then get to work on the "accident".

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You know you're a CNA when....

You want to bathe your elderly relatives, even though they are alert and independent.

You want to use a gait belt to stabilize everyone who just tripped, limped, or paced, while out in the real world.

You outomatically percieve other elderly people that you see at the grocery store as demented individuals, whom might have a catastrophic reaction while you are there.

You constantly think about measuring your own I&O for a week or so, just to see if you intake is greater than out output. LOL!

You treat your granparents as if they were your residents. The "I can do it myself!" phrase all of a sudden has no truth in it anymore.

You want to take the vital signs of all your friends and family who state that their head hurts, or that they feel sick.

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Specializes in LTC, Home Health, Hospice.

Do these count:

Home Health/Hospice CNA...

Your trunk is full of diapers, chucks, enemas, water, note pads, BLACK PENS, and your cell phone is your best friend!....

The director calls you and asks you if youve eaten..and you say..food what food?

you put on a pair of jeans and wonder where all the pockets are...

you go out to dinner with your husband/boyfriend/friends and open the drawers to put on scrubs, only to realize..you do have regular clothes.

your ideal pair of shoes are sneakers....they go with everything...

your watch is always on.

you get excited to go scrub shopping...

You cry when your resident dies.

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Specializes in 6 yrs LTC, 1 yr MedSurg, Wound Care.

You know you are a CNA when you knock on the door to go OUT of a residents room. :)

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You know you are a CNA when you knock on the door to go OUT of a residents room. :)

...or on the linen closet door before entering. :smackingf

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Specializes in CNA.

You know you are a CNA when you have given seven showers, got 13 residents up, dressed, fed, and back down, answered a multitude of call lights, cleaned up explosive poop and projectile vomit, finished last round, and then leave work saying,"It was an easy night. I'm not tired. I think I'll go to WalMart."

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When the conversation in the break room involves bodily functions, and you can all laugh about it over your lunch.

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...when you're secretly excited (yet saddened for the resident) when someone has a heart attack/stroke/seizure and EMS is called because it's the most excitement you've had all month except for the time when Ms. Smith showed you how she can take her dentures out and spit them into the cup without using her hands (which is AMAZING!!).

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Specializes in ALS, LTC, Home Health.

You know youre a CNA when;

You have the day off and you go shopping and as soon as you get there you reach down to adjust the gatebelt around your waist and panic when it isn't there.

You go out to dinner at a nice sitdown restaurant with you SO and ten minutes after you get seated all the tables around you empty out because you are talking about the bodily fluids you deal with on a daily basis.

When you buy a soda and instinctively convert the oz to cc.

When you are not embarrassed to be caught out in public wearing crocks.

When all your family and friends come to you to diagnose their medical problems and without thinking you say "I'll go get the nurse"

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When you have a patient in the shower chair, he leaves a trail of tiny turds all the way down the hallway on the way to the shower, and you laugh instead of scream/run away/cry.

This happened to me today.

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You know your a CNA when you wear gloves to clean you own bathroom/kitchen.

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