What Is The Difference Between A Cna And A Rn?
Okay well it’s kind of a long story but basically…I want to work with pregnancies and babies…I really love babies and I thought that I would want to work mainly with babies but pregnancies in general amaze me…i considered becoming a midwife but I watched an episiodomy on youtube and as soon as i saw all that dark gushing blood i stopped it and my stomach felt bad…i couldn’t get that memory out of my head…so i was talking with the ultrasound tech at my OB’s office and she said that she had to get a CNA…what is that? do you think it would be a good decision? whats the difference in a CNA and a RN? Please explain…
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CNA: I believe is a certified nursing assistant. Not a nurse. They can take blood, urine samples, measure weight height, etc. Pretty much a glorified office assistant who can take blood.
An RN is a registered nurse.
edit: yes, if you are going to get it you have to learn to do so.
I have my CNA but I work in a nursing home. Basically we make sure that the patient is comfortable and learn to care for the patients. In a nursing home, we bathe and dress the clients, as well as change their briefs when they are soiled and help to feed them. I’m not sure exactly what you would do in the hospital but most likely you will just be there to make the patients comfortable. Bringing water and helping the nurse out as much as possible. RNs are allowed to pass meds and take blood, which a CNA is not able to do. CNAs are basically there to help the nurse out. I love my job though, it’s very rewarding.
CNA= certified nurses assistant
RN= Registered Nurse.
you want to work in pediatrics……as a RN………hope your dreams come true. As a RN you will draw blood and will have to have a decent stomach (as in be able to deal with some gruesome sights)
CNA’s pretty much change patients and clean them ect.
A CNA is a nursing assistant, a RN is a registered nurse. A CNA is basically under supervision of a RN.
Yes you would have to take blood, you can opt out of it if you become a nurse, midwife or such.
Trust me, if you really want to be a midwife then don’t let those things bother you, you don’t need to be a delivering midwife, you can be one that looks after the woman throughout her pregnancy and after the pregnancy, i have one of those, she’s called a midwife/health visitor. Where i’m from we have midwifes that deliver and are only working in the hospitals and we have midwifes that look after you in pregnancy and after until your baby is a certain age.
You’ll get used to taking blood and stuff too, it’s really no big deal after a few times of it.
As for an ultrasound tech, you basically just do the ultrasounds and that’s it, you don’t take blood or such.
You should take another look at midwifery and what it entails. Midwives don’t preform episiotomies unless strictly necessary, since their aim is to provide women with a healthy, safe, holistic/natural alternative to having an obstetrician or family doctor attend their births. As a nurse, you’d probably see more interventions (mostly unnecessary) than you would as a midwife.
If preforming the actual medical side of things gives you a bit of the squiggles, also consider becoming a doula to help women and their partners through labour. It’s a nice blend of getting to know a woman in her third trimester and helping her and her partner through labour to birth without having to be involved medically.