Does it truly involve giving people baths, dressing them, cleaning up their behinds like a baby, and working with old people? Aren't there CNA jobs in regular hospitals rather than in just nursing homes? My mom is a retired nurse and said that I want nothing to do with being a CNA because of the work that's involved.
2007-11-01 03:16:01 · 7 answers · asked by tahnwen 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Health Care
Your mom is right. I know. I am a retired nurse, also. Even in a "regular" hospital, that is still the type of work you will be doing. It is hard, unpleasant work. Work at it very long, and you ruin your back, your hips and your knees. Take your mom's advice and find something else to do.
2007-11-01 03:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Working As A Cna
2016-11-13 19:58:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Basically the CNA's do all the work that the RN'S and LPN'S dont wanna do. Yes it does involve bathing,dressing,cleaning them up and sometimes feeding them. CNA'S can also work in hospitals, not jus in Nursing homes. Its all about helping people.
2016-04-04 01:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a nurse I can tell you CNA's are invaluable in health care. We nurses depend on good QUALITY cna's. It is very hard physical labor with some odd ours and you usually work short staffed. However for the right person it is also a very rewarding job to know you are caring for the elderly who have lived their whole lives just to end up in a nursing home. Unless you have a heart for the elderly and are prepared to have it broken, burst with joy, and soften with tender moments, and a back of steel it is not the job for you.
2007-11-01 03:32:13 · answer #4 · answered by angelb 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There are other options but to gain experience you will probably start in a nursing home or a hospital but the job is not much different. The best CNA jobs in my opinion are in doctor's offices but are probably harder to get. In the Air Force we referred to Med Techs (similar to CNA's with more responsibilities) as "bedpan commandos"! On the upside medicine is a great field as jobs are plentiful. I think maybe Mom wants you to aim a bit higher maybe as a LPN or a RN.
2007-11-01 03:23:03 · answer #5 · answered by SGT V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Working as a CNA is very very hard work. Disgusting? That all depends on your definition of disgusting. If cleaning up adult poo is disgusting to you, then yes, it is a disgusting job.
We have a patient that comes into our hospital who is always filthy when he arrives. He is covered mucous because he has a trach and he is always smelly. The nurses don't like to take care of him because he needs so much attention and face it, they just don't have the time. One day I went into his room to clean up his trach and the man was spotless...not only was he spotless, be he was smelling great. I went into the hall and asked who was taking care of this man...this wonderful CNA said, "me, and doesn't he look good." I said he looks the best I have ever seen him look. She made the following comment, "that is because I am taking care of him..." She took great pride in her work. I told her that she could take care of any of my patients any time, any where.
Unless you can do a great job like this CNA, I would recommend that you be an xray tech...it pays more and involves little patient interaction.
2007-11-01 03:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I really get ticked off when people state, 'Oh you don't want to do this / that.'
What they mean is, 'In my opinion you wont like doing this / that.'
I am thinking that CNA is a Clinical Nursing Assistant! And therefore am wondering just what you see the role of one of these as doing?
Disgusting! Yup, it is disgusting, just like taking care of a baby is disgusting, or cleaning up after a puppy has 'made a mess' is disgusting .....as is cleaning an infected wound is disgusting and doing anything with organic / body matter is disgusting.
No one should have to do this kind of thing. Casualties in car wrecks should just be shovelled to the side of the road and left to rot. Patients should be given 2 weeks in which to get better, or out they go and leave the bed free for the next one, or better still, close all hospitals and save the nation a fortune ....and create a place where nothing disgusting has to be done (while training babies to clear up their own mess too).
Sash.
2007-11-01 03:29:26 · answer #7 · answered by sashtou 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
It is what you have been told and much much worse. If you absolutely love working with people and helping them and taking care of them and you would find this a very rewarding job even with all the extremely hard work it entails, go for it, but if you just want some easy money, you are looking in the wrong place. And yes, they do hire them in hospitals sometimes but you have to do the same type of work there. You would have to look at this as your career in helping people verses just a job. These people deserve the best care available and deserve to have people helping that actually want to be there to help them. They don't deserve some stupid lazy punk thinking that taking care of them is gross and making them feel worse about themselves than they already do. Even though they cannot help what their problems are, they still feel bad to have to have someone take care of them. You need to do a lot of research about this type of job before you do it.
2007-11-01 03:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by = ) 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
working cna disgusting ve told
2016-01-23 00:54:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nurses always feel that they are above and beyond LNA's. They always seem to think they are better. My mom has been an LNA for almost 30 years and loves her job. Being an LNA allows time for the patient to bond with someone during their stay, puts a friendly face/name to their visit. Nurses and Dr's do not have time to do this. It is a very nuturing/caring career.
2007-11-01 03:24:25 · answer #10 · answered by jennifer_nh72 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋