What Are The Exact Duties Of A Cna From Someone With Experience In It?
a cna is a certified nursing assistant and id like to know what kind of things you get to do and what are your priveledges and average pay etc. and if you like your job and if youd rather move on to be an lpn or rn or even a doctor. if theres anything else youd like to share about being a cna all information is welcomed. im wondering because next year ill be a cna , im taking the college courses for it but im not quite sure on what they do really.
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It depends where you work. If you work in a nursing home or in home health care, you will mostly be assisting with dressing, toileting, sitting up, etc. In a hospital, you will be doing more monitoring of vital signs, assisting with rocedures, bedmaking and general gofer duty. There are way too many possibilities of specific assignments to list them all here.
I am a relatively new CNA and I haven’t been working as a CNA much. I have been using the knowledge and skills in a ward clerk position and also in assisting to educate other staff. I would like to go on to become a health educator.
Come to Alaska. If you work for the state, you can start at $14.14. Other employers are a little lower but all way higher than the rest of the country.
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a CNA is a certified nursing assistant, but the job entails cleaning up after people, giving them showers, assisting them to dress, all the things a nurse does, only the nurse is busy doing things the CNA cannot do because of licensing. the CNA does all the grunt work in other words. I’m not sure of the average pay where you are, but in Kansas, most CNA’s make around $8/ hour or less. I’m not a CNA, actually, where i work at- we call the CNA’s- Personal CAre Attendants and they get paid from $7/ hour to $8.50/ hour and they only care for 1 or two people, not everyone in a nursing home or hospital, they also do not have to go to school to be a PCA (personal care attendant). although what is expected of you- is to show up when scheduled, on time and ready to work, be available to fill in when someone else calls in sick, and not bring your children, husband, boyfriend to work. also to leave the cell phone at home or on a silent setting and not be on it every 10 minutes.
Well your responsibilities will be different depending on where you go, CNAs technically only work in Long Term care Facilities, (nursing Homes). Your main responsibilities are keeping patients clean and turned to avoid bedsores. You will also feed patients and walk with them put them on the commode or use a urinal. You will also change their linens and clothes. However there are alternatives to LCFs. I work in the equivalent position in a hospital on the neuro intensive care unit, many of the responsibilities are the same, cleaning pts etc. However I also draw blood take vital signs, assist in codes and procedures, and my nurses in general. If you are looking at getting into health care it a great way to go. It has given me a taste of what the health care profession is like so that I know that I definitely want to be in it. Further it has given me lots of experience in the Field so that now that I going to school to be an RN I have a bit of a leg up on my classmates. Last and best of all because there is such a nursing shortage my hospital is willing to pay for my schooling as long as I make Cs and will work for them for a year after I graduate. The pay here in Nashville is a bit better than the fellow in KC, I get $9.80 plus a $2 night shift differencial and a $1 weekend differential. Cheers and good luck.
My girlfriend is now an RN but she started out as a cna. She worked in a retired assisted living home and she basically had all the grunt work. She had to change the patients clothes and wipe up there butts when they went to the bathroom, also feeding them each day, also taking vital signs was part of her job. As for pay it is not that much, like between 8.00 and 10.00 bucks depending on where you work. I know that California just got a pay raise to 9.00 dollars an hour. But they are sad places to work and they smell funny as well.
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