Summary: A Career As A Certified Nursing Assistant

Who would you want answering your call in the middle of a frightening hospital night:A caring CNA--or a grumpy, pompous doctor? For many, a certified nursing assistant is very critical to their hospital-stay care and often seem to make the difference between life and death. Certified nursing assistant are all over the world. Being a nursing assistant is not a easy task. To work in this profession one needs to be physically, emotionally, and mentally very strong. Nursing assistants help provide people with basic care for patients in hospitals and nursing homes/ long care facilities. Many people in the world think Certified nursing assistants are useless along with may other medical professionals. According to a Nurse at gorham house nursing

CNA’s do the job duties that registered nurses are not able to do. As a certified nursing assistant one’s job duties are to do the basic care to the patients that need help with everyday activities because the nurses do not have time for it. The activities that certified nursing assistants do are “Clean and bathe patients or residents, Help patients use the toilet and dress, Turn, reposition, and transfer patients between beds and wheelchairs, Listen to and record patients’ health concerns and report that information to nurses,Get patients’ vital signs, such as blood pressure and temperature, and Serve meals and help patients eat”(Irimia R, Gottschling M). Many Certified nursing assistants would like to point out that many of these nurses or other medical professionals think they don’t have to help out when a patient needs help, they just go right to the CNA. According to the nurse at Gorham house states that “CNA are useless and their job duties are pointless”. As a CNA you would see that most of the medical professionals would come to you when a patient needs help because they don’t want to do the dirty work. Many CNA also have a lot of lifting to

Patients would not be getting “Clean and bathe, Help with using the toilet and dressing them self, Turn, reposition, and transfer patients between beds and wheelchairs, Listen to and record patients’ health concerns and report that information to nurses(Irimia R, Gottschling M).Other medical professionals need to stop putting down certified nursing assistants because what they don't realize is that there patients wouldn't be getting this type of care if it wasn't for them. Because of this type of shaming its causing certified nursing assistants to get done in fact the turn over rate in 2012 for “CNAs had been the largest median turnover at 51.5 percent”(American Health care association p 2) we as people and other medical staff need to start appreciating our Certified nursing assistants more and realizing all the care they do for