You know you're a CNA when...

[hookyarnandblanket]

You find bruises on yourself and you can't account for where you would have received them.

[hookyarnandblanket]

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

[mvm2]

When your CNA sences are on high alert when you see a elderly person in the grocery store and you think what do I have to do help them. You feel you need to be right there and walk next to them to try to catch them if they fall. (Where is that gait belt when you need it)

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

When your CNA sences are on high alert when you see a elderly person in the grocery store and you think what do I have to do help them. You feel you need to be right there and walk next to them to try to catch them if they fall. (Where is that gait belt when you need it)

This happens to me all the time. I literally want to position myself to catch them in case they fall! Or want to assist them in getting in or out of the car. This is when I see an elderly person having difficulty walking/transferring.

I geriatric pts!!

[hookyarnandblanket]

This happens to me all the time. I literally want to position myself to catch them in case they fall! Or want to assist them in getting in or out of the car. This is when I see an elderly person having difficulty walking/transferring.

I geriatric pts!!

There is a disabled geriatric person in our community who will literally scream at you if you try to even hold a door open for him if you are leaving and he is coming in. He screamed at me and some other people at the grocery store one day just for being courteous with the door. :-( He made a terrible scene in front of a full store of people. I truly was being courteous because it was a windy day and the particular door he insisted on using is notorious for getting caught in the wind. I finally had to say, "Thank you for sharing" and hurry out the exit to get him to stop yelling at me.

No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. I am sure the day will come when he falls or slips and he will scream at people for not stopping him from falling or slipping. We have learned to steer very clear of him and not even say good afternoon or good evening to him. Sad, angry man.

[Valcorie34, BSN, MSN, RN]

YES! I do that!

[Mommyfuturenurse]

When the smell of poop reminds you of a hilarious story from work.

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

Hookyarnandblanket: yes! There's a fine line to walk r/t preserving their dignity/ independence and helping them.

Some of them would rather hurt themselves than ask for help.

The phrase that comes to my mind is "they have the right to fall".

I'm sorry you experienced that rude person.

Keep on doing the right thing!

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

When you no longer smell "poop" anymore....

[SnowShoeRN]

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

Oh my God, I actually did this on the door of my locker one morning after my shift. I just said to myself, "Wow...it really *has* been a long night..."

[jose2010]

When u hear chair alarms going off u intently drop everything

[Momof8CNA]

when you have medical tape, lancets, strips, and what not laying around your house from not emptying your pockets when you go home!

i almost went home with a finger pulse ox last night :O

[hookyarnandblanket]

When someone in your house is bleeding profusely and you look at it and say, "Put TAO on that and slap some steri strips on. You'll live."