![]() I think if you worked someplace where the teamwork is great and everyone (CNA and RN staff) takes their turn dealing with unpleasantness, then you'd probably be much happier.īut most importantly: If you do decide to continue school and become a nurse, PLEASE remember how miserable you feel being the one doing the grunt work now, and don't stop basic nursing care after you're a nurse. I think most of your complaints are probably really about your lousy co-workers than the nursing tasks itself. I think it's worth mentioning that it's normal to be disgusted by cleaning up patients when first starting out, and it WILL get easier to handle over time. In the ICU, the nurses don't have CNA's, but if a fecal explosion is too much to take, it's okay to ask another nurse for help. On the floors, the nurses and CNA's work together to keep people clean. I've moved on to a larger university hospital as a nurse, and every unit here promotes teamwork. ![]() I've had nurses there leave their patient's rooms pretending they didn't notice the smells of dirty briefs! It was typical for a nurse to pass a med, then walk out of the room to tell the CNA, "Hey, patient so-and-so needs to use the commode", then sit down and play Bejeweled on a computer in the nurse's station. Everything unappealing, of course, was "tech work". It was very apparent that some nurses felt that there was "nurse work", and then there was "tech work". I was a CNA for about a year at a small hospital before I got my RN license. ![]() I agree with everyone and then some, but I did want to mention that the nurses you work with would be raked over the coals if they worked with my current nursing crew, and how things are being run at your hospital are NOT acceptable in the least.
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