You know you're a CNA when...

When you reach "your lowest point" at your work place and swear you're going to quit first thing in the morning but you come back renewed the next shift because you love your patients/residents

When a friend dies and you keep working, because a good CNA knows you care about everyone in your care. Other professions would have time off, counseling, we keep going because what we do matters to more than just one.

(Yeah I'm in a mood. lol a resident I cared about passed two days after leaving last month for assisted living. But his wife brought us in chocolates with a note he wrote saying thanks. sad but also heartwarming, and well sad!)

Also when poo starts seeming funny... your probably a CNA

Valcorie: always have to find humor in the little things, but in most cases the not so little things haha!

When you can see some really gross things and continue on to eat lunch like it never happened lol.

When you can comfortably say to the new admit and you can tell they are shy about needing help getting on the toilet: "I've been doing this long enough now that one butt is the same as another butt". :)

You knock on every door and wait for a response before entering. Even in your own house.

You knock on every door and wait for a response before entering. Even in your own house.

Guilty!! 😀 I not only do this at home, but at clinicals when I enter a supply room! 😂

Also when poo starts seeming funny... your probably a CNA

My response to this thread is simple:

Poop.

Lol. Too funny but true

When the smell of poop doesn't even phase you or when you make your bed at home the same way it is done at the hospital.

You find yourself wanting to cut up meat and large veggies for your family at dinner time or automatically try to feed them.