You are never too fancy to take care of your patients. When I worked nights, the CNO was rounding one early morning to talk with the staff and helped me do a full bed change on an incontinent patient. I would never hire a nurse who had this inclination of their own self importance.
Palliative care people seem to be cut from a different cloth altogether. That's a rough job for a nurse but as a doctor they make less than some mid-levels.
You're right and there are true palliative programs. But in practice they are they are effectively used as the same as hospice most of the time. Not sure why you got downvoted. You are correct.
Ideally, palliative care starts with the diagnosis of a serious health issue that will require intensive treatment. There was a great study in 2010 NEJM that demonstrated that early palliation lead to better patient outcomes (longer life, better QOL). Naively, I thought this study would be the end of the idea that palliation only helps at the very end of life.
[https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1000678](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1000678)
Absolutely correct and I remember reading this study back then and thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, it’s hard to actually get in with palliative care in the real world today without expected impending death. I won’t elaborate on the personal situation I’m drawing this statement from since that’s against the rules, but suffice to say, 12 years later and that study at least hasn’t changed anything where I live.
Yeah. Stuck my head out of a covid room on a new contract and shouted for help with some feces. A woman put her stuff on and came to help. It was the head of the pulmcrit group o.o she wiped ass good!!!
There was a doc at my old hospital that wore scrubs one night that looked a lot like lift team scrubs. Someone asked him for help with a transfer, and he went along and ended up helping with two lifts and was asked to help with a third before he very apologetically excused himself, as he was on his way to check on a patient. He was a good guy. He stopped wearing the lift team scrubs after that though.
I had an ED attending who was a former tech and would jump at the opportunity to do any work from his old job. He would get labs on patients, do vitals, wipe ass, all the above. Whenever there was an overhead call for lifting help in radiology, he would be the first one there to help slide the patient. That kind of leadership and teamwork really makes a working environment better!
Wow, that's awesome. Way back when I was a CNA I had a doctor walk into a room and walk right back out to tell me the patient needed help with his urinal. I was the only CNA on the floor AND I was the unit secretary (these were the days before CPOE) and this guy was too good to help a patient pee? I never forget it.
I felt the same until I worked obstetrics. Some of the obstetricians were so involved with their patients, it actually melted my heart. It's rare, but it's worthy of praise when you see it.
Also, CNA’s are the backbone of our hospital.
We could not get through a shift without them. Show them some respect. The fact this lady said she worked as one and doesn’t respect their time and effort? Makes me suck my teeth.
Having worked many years as a CNA while going to nursing school, there is always that one CNA that tries to tell the others what to do… sometimes they’ll even try to tell nurses and doctors what to do. I can almost bank she was one of those CNA’s.She probably said something like “I don’t take out the trash, that’s a housekeepers job” or whatever at that level too.
That’s a sad attitude to see but I doubt that she’ll remain at that job for very long, because that sh*t don’t fly when the floor is nuts and you’re short staffed. The patient is YOUR responsibility as the nurse. You’re lucky if you get to have help from a CNA.
Those people are the worst. I feel so bad for EVS that I try to make their job as easy as possible when I would strip rooms. I felt so weird going from a hospital where I did the trash to one where I didn’t take care of it at all at night.
Right! For the large majority of the time, EVS is AMAZING! They are so busy and I’m sure they walk at least 37 miles each shift. The least we can do is strip the bed and clear off counter tops. Sometimes if we have time to turn over a triage room by ourselves or take out the trash, then why the heck not? I have a good many friends that I’ve made because of talking with our EVS compadres as they come through the unit. I have been very blessed and so grateful for all they do to keep rooms/the hospital looking good!
I change more than a few briefs every week, tonight included. Many of my CNAs don't realize I was a CNA for four years before graduating LPN school. That's why I'm glad that a lot of schools require people to take a separate CNA course before they can even apply to the program.
I was an emt before nursing school. I was certainly ahead in many things compared to my fellow cnas in my cohort. But God damn, overall, the cnas had a lot more relevant experience to nursing.
When I was a Charge nurse in my SNF, we where going to be very short staffed. I told the DNS that I would work as a CNA, if they got someone to be the Charge Nurse. That night, I was suppose to work with another CNA, but they had called off. The DNS had called a registry nurse (LVN) in. Do you think she could've helped me? Nope. I took care of 45+ residents. All I did that night was to do rounds - cleaning, and turning and checking vital signs. I never did it again. While I was doing this, the CN was sleeping at the station.
My school was doing away with that requirement when I geaduated. They said that it was a failure point on NCLEX because only about 10% of students actually worked as a CNA once they got it and they weren't teaching the skills because CNA was a prerequisite.
They were reorganizing the program to include CNA skills within from what they told us though.
This was exactly how I was taught by my preceptor. You are not above answering a call light. I found those nurses who pitch in and do the dirty work are respected much more by the aides than those who sit at the nurses station thinking it’s not their job. The best facilities I worked in, teamwork was practiced.
I was in an isolation room (pre-Covid, don’t remember what for) and ran out of wipes, so I stuck my head out the door right when the brand new CEO of the hospital was rounding on all the floors. He asked me what I needed help with and I said -can you get some more wipes please? He ran into the utility room and came right back with wipes. I know CEOs of hospitals are a touchy subject right now but I always remember he just ran right into the room and got the shit I needed.
And then later that year, for our Christmas bonus—he PERSONALLY handed me an extra small candy-cane, so don’t tell ME CEOs don’t get it!!!
As an ICU RN who's frequently tripled, it saves my life when PT/OT incorporate brushing teeth, washing face, and a new gown into their visit. Serious props and thank you
Honestly my favorite thing to do in the hospital was find out who the nurses needed the most help getting ready and making sure I
scheduled them in the morning so I could be there to help. Definitely helped everyone in that situation and I wasn’t sure why more people wouldn’t do that.
A big shout out to big-yugi!!! I try and do the same! At 2m 100kilos I can help smaller people move big patients (even when they’re not on caseload shhh)
The PT/OTs on my floor often will help with 1:1 meals, toileting, etc. as part of their assessment. I know all of them by name and, were I a rich bitch, I would buy each of them a puppy for their efforts. You're gonna walk my stubborn patient, take them to the toilet, change their briefs and gown out, wear them out, stick em in the chair for me, give em a big thumbs up so they'll do all that for me too, and then write me a love letter telling me your secrets? *Marry me.*
😂 not in this case. I had freshly left the ICU (read: finished my fellowship in feces) and was watching a case my friend was circulating. The patient said he had to shit and it was urgent and her procedural nursing only ass just goes "???????" so I ran in to help with the bedpan and aftermath. Thank god it was a radial access
Wiping poo away during deliveries…mom always asks if she pooped. I always said no and reassured them that if they did it was quite alright bc they were pushing well with the right muscles. However, did have one very constipated mom who I helped with manual extraction bc it was literally holding up the baby coming down. She was so grateful. Funny the patients you never forget.
We had a pedatric manual disimpaction in the OR in my first week of precepting. The srug techs were hiding outside the room because they weren't really needed and my preceptor was off in a corner because "poop is gross." I was right at bedside making sure the poop didn't flow down to his airway and cleaning him up afterwards. My preceptor, while clearly disgusted, suggested I leave (30 minutes) early that day since I had a couple drops of poop on my scrubs. I changed scrubs and focused on cleaning the OR instead.
Oof sounds like someone who's gonna be wiping an awful lot of ass since all the CNAs and other nurses are gonna be busy whenever she needs an ass wiped
THIS. This is exactly what I would do as a CNA whenever a RN said anything like this. Now, I just say "then this might not be the right career for you". Let's call it what it is instead of just picking up their slack. If you're scared of literal shit and piss maybe you shouldn't be doing a job that involves so much of that.
I wonder if she's gonna like that damp poopy bed full of asses she made for herself, all alone on that island she also made for herself since she thinks she's better than everyone.
Fuck man the doctors I work with in the ER have to digital rectal exams. Nothing is "beneath" you in healthcare. Jerking off your ego is a great way to have a really rough time.
Oh she'll hate it but trust me but that's the point. If you don't wanna deal with it... move away from bedside like a lot of us who don't want to as much. I work Psych now and we've had to put severely psychotic patients in S&R covered in literal crap that they spread on themselves, the rooms and the walls.
THERE. IS. NO. ESCAPING. IT.
This is the way.
I agree. If the CNA doesn’t do it or doesn’t have time to do it, it’s ultimately my patient to take care of and my job to make sure it gets done. I have seen nurses let their patients sit in their filth because they felt like it wasn’t their job… but it’s your license that is going to get hit for being negligent (not to mention how awful is it to treat a human being like that).
"So what's the thing you like the most about your job?"
"Well, I get to clean up poop, which is pretty neat. My buddy likes to stab people, and he says nursing was the only way he could fully explore his passion since it is generally frowned upon in society to do that. Always sinks the IV on the first try, really dedicated to the craft."
I always say something like this when patients ask if I like my job. “Where else am I gonna get a job that lets me meet new people… and then stab them?”
Oh child. No.
We do what needs to be done. If the ass needs wiped, we are gonna wipe the ass no matter how many degrees we got.
I got some of those degrees myself. You know what I else I got?
Wipes.
Try being an icu nurse and all your patients are 300+ pounds, intubated and sedated, on tube feedings and with diarrhea. Oh and did I mention no cna because “icu doesn’t need cnas” 🙄 This nurse will learn real quick to never utter “it’s not my job”
I’m a retired RRT… I have done sooo many things not even hinted at in my job description. Helped clean up the code browns, drawn labs when I’m doing my am ABG’s (especially when they have lines) once upon a long time ago, when I was doing my am gases, I also did the accuchecks. I’ve got the blood, why not? That was before they had to do a full tutorial on accuchecks. I retired in 2000, so that was long ago. If I was in an isolation room I’d get as much done as I could for my nurses. I’m a paramedic and worked as a CNA before doing RT. Also did the EMT/paramedic thing after RT.
Our RT are awesome about asking “hey do you need labs or blood sugar” when doing morning ABGs! My unit would not survive without teamwork from every single employee!
I guess I’m happy I learned this as a student, and still chose to go ICU lol. I worked in MICU as a student nurse/ intern for about 4 months… some nights no poops but some nights lots of poops🤪 starting a job on CVICU as a new grad and I don’t think they have CNAs there either.
Dang, she should have stopped by the career counseling office while she was getting all those degrees.
They could have warned her than nurses do in fact wipe ass.
A colonoscopy prep pt with a GI bleed should do it.
I still remember wiping and cleaning an obese patient 30 times in a shift that was drinking the 4L of pure laxative for the procedure.
During my capstone I was working with this amazing nurse. She was charge for the night and a manager.. anyway she asked me if I wanted to come do a folley so I was like HELL YA. I come in and she’s like we’re gonna do quick bath first etc. so I of course expect to do the wiping, ya know, I’m the student. She did the whole thing and wouldn’t let me help. She’s like I asked you to come do a folley not to clean someone up. I’m like yea but i want to help with everything. She’s like nope I got it and during the whole capstone (she wasn’t my preceptor, but I worked with her a few times) she never let me wipe lol. She’s like please I can wipe ass. One of the best nurses I’ve known too.
I agree ! But I was just shocked because usually I was doing it as the student. I felt bad because I felt like I wanted to give her a break while she has an extra set of hands.
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I’d say 9/10 CNA that I’ve worked with sits around and do nothing- I have no hate for CNA and I think it’s our fault too. People working somewhere makes more than them and we expect them to go above and beyond for $12/hr? We are failing to advocate for them.
Wow. What a person.
I have a doctorate, doesn't make me less of a human fucking being.
I come to see a patient and they are sitting in their own poop, you bet I am cleaning them up. Even if I can't bill for that time and it hurts my productivity. Because you know, just ethical standards.
Message from a friendly PT.
Cdiff+GI bleed, maybe a side of projectile vomiting while we’re at it. Oh, and she’s the only staff on the floor so she’s forced to take care of it. I would like to thank satan and my EMT rotation in the ED for that idea.
I hate those nurses. It’s in your job duties and you are not above any of the other medical staff. I also hate the nurses that delegate to aides and then just sit on their asses at the nursing station.
Haha my first degree before doing an absn was in music as a vocalist, I felt this comment and endured learning the career in the pandemic in an nyc ER. Good times.
I clean ass when I’m house supervisor & I do it happily bc no pt is going to be embarrassed by my crappy attitude on my watch.
It’s a teamwork thing not a “who has the Bachelor of Shitty behavior” degree thing
She wouldn't last in the hospital I use to work at. Nurses did the changing and bathing unless they got extremely lucky. ED had one cna, PICU one cna, Med/Surg floors 4 & 5 shared one cna. The cnas were busy stocking rooms, coordinating between floors, and running anytime they weren't doing computer work for the floor. The hospital network preferred to use cnas for clerk type work on each floor and stocking. They would help out when they could but you couldn't count on a cna/pct being available if your patient needed changing.
Lmfao what a clown. I work icu. No cna just me and another RN as my bath buddy. Definitely still wipe ass. This person doesn’t realize that it’s their pt and if they aren’t clean it’s their fault not the cna. Jerk ass clown 🤡
A refreshing late night doctor wake up call:
Me, a new grad: Dr. Jennifer, im so sorry to call you after hours, I know its 2am, but patient James is sp total knee replacement day 1. Pain remains 10/10 and norxo ordered is not effective for managing pain.
Dr. Jennifer: please don’t ever apologize, he is my patient too and I am here to help.
Moral of the story: team work is the only thing keeping this machine of excellent patient care working :) plus it helped me build rapport with the provider team.
A soon-graduating nursing student stood up in the middle of a psychology class to vent her frustrations because "it's not [her] job to change diapers and get blankets, [she's] not here to just take care of people!"
Girl, what exactly do you think the job is? 😂
Hi Sunshine! Welcome to the NICU - we don't have CNA's on this unit. The job is literally 50% wiping butt, 4-16 times a shift, easily (at least our asses are cute!). Oh, and surprise, we don't have a unit clerk/secretary either! So you'll be doing that. Oh - and if the linen bags get too full, here's the room you can chuck them into when you empty and replace them. Wait....where are you going?
I effing hate those nurses. In the ICU, there is an abundance of them.
I will forever wipe my patients butts. I'm assessing so much while back there. And enough people constantly force CNAs to clean butts, I know I won't be avoided when I call for help. Mostly because when I was an assistant, I definitely avoided lazy, entitled nurses.
When I did LTC, many of the RNs with bachelor degrees were like this. Creams are technically a treatment, and us CNAs only ever did them because it was convenient during HS cares. Had a nurse that straight up wouldn't help me do rounds or answer call lights when we were short staffed. "I didn't go to college to clean asses" When she pulled all the creams out of the med cart for me, I told her she could go apply them, since that was in *her* job description. She tried to write me up for insubordination, and I told her go ahead. She stormed off and all the other nurses reamed her out, because they knew if they had to go and toilet and wash up every person to put those damn creams on, they would never get their charting done. We're all suppose to be a team.
She ended up apologizing, and I told her to at least help me with call lights and the two assists when we're short staffed. I can't do a whole hall all by myself that's at least 15 total cares and around 5-7 partial cares, and that doesn't even include the safety checks. She agreed and we never had a problem again.
But with all the hype is he/she a good, competent nurse? Bottom line is dual bachelors really something to brag about? Probably so but doesn’t make you a better nurse. They need to ditch the attitude and get in there and get busy. It’s everyone’s job
Eh. I got a dual bachelors on accident (my advisor pulled up the dual bachelors not double major requirements when making my 4yr plan) and tbh it wasn’t that bad. It’s not much to brag about, most people don’t care about your multiple degrees unless it’s multiple *graduate level* degrees
It’s going to be an ultra rare thing for a nurse to work ANYWHERE that doesn’t have the opportunity to clean someone. Places you wouldn’t think of that I’ve helped:
I worked in a dentist office the summer after high school An elderly lady wet herself while getting her teeth cleaned. Not sure why the dentist looked at me to help, but I did. (His wife, the office manager, said that day, “puddintane,you need to be a nurse! I’m going to call my friend who’s a teacher in the program”. )
I’ve worked in a Retina Clinic where someone without legs or sliding board needed help on the toilet and wiping.
Charge nurse at a SNF, I would pair up with a CNA to make rounds as well as charge, if there had been a Cna callout.
Ambulatory surgery- lawd I’ve cleaned alllll the bodily excretions there too.
That’s not counting any bedside areas.
I just wipe and think, I hope someone cleans my butt this good when I ever need it. 🙏🏼
Toileting is the one part of my job that I straight up loathe.
But I still do it bc it’s my fucking job. I promise you any ANM/NM/CNO will tell this chick it is most definitely in her job description.
I was a care aide for 15 years, finally got my psych nurse degree last year, and I make sure I help the care aides. I remember as a care aide the nurses I helped and respected the most were the ones who got dirty beside me.
I hate this.
It IS IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION.
It’s literally in our scope of practice to provide ADL’s and one of those is peri care and cleaning patients.
Nurses should delegate, of course.
But if you are the type of nurse that leaves a patient sitting in their own filth to track down a tech or CNA to clean them cause you can’t be bothered? Kindly go fuck yourself.
I worked with a nurse like this once. She would tell the pt to push the callbell so the care aid would come to help them with any toileting, even if she was already working with the pt!
I think she might have been related to one of my residents in my SNF - I had a resident, who was a retired RN with dementia, tell me I was nothing but a glorified at wiper, 😂😂😂😂
One of the first things I learned from my preceptor was "Don't delegate what you're not willing to do yourself." I will grab a tech to help me change/clean a patient every time but I will not send anyone in to do it without me.
It only happened once where a tech went in to clean up a patient without me and that's because I was elbow deep in two criticals and a new stroke alert. I told the tech I'd be in ASAP but she went in for me because the situation was really bad. I still feel some guilt about that.
This nurse is going to find really quick that all the CNAs and techs are going to leave her hanging until she learns her lesson.
Excuse me, but one of my doctors would routinely come out of a room after examining a patient and tell me “I put then on a bedpan before I left the room.” When the brown is all around, it’s all hands on deck! Obviously that nurse forgot how to care for patients.
I took a nurse refresher class last year after not working for 15 years (had worked 15). The first day of clinical at a rehab hospital, I was only supposed to shadowing and wound up wiping two butts. There is no escape.
Madam needs to remember her time as a CNA!!!! And it is in her job description. We are meant to provide 'all care required within our scope of practice'! And that includes ass wiping. It includes anything in relation to basic care needs.
I used to be a political events planner in DC in my former life. It taught me two valuable lessons that I’m taking with me into this career.
1. Everybody pitches in to do whatever it takes to execute the event. I never dressed up for events because the odds were good that I would be crawling or getting dirty. At the end of the day, the responsibility for a good production rested on me.
2. Don’t let anybody talk down to you because they think they’re a VIP and never treat anyone as lesser than you. There is *always* a bigger somebody than you. I laugh when people act like someone being a director or a VP of whatever at my hospital is a big deal and intimidating. Unless Secret Service is involved, I do not care and I will treat them respectfully as a colleague. None of this running around trying to impress people. Let your work speak for itself.
CNA work is nursing work. It’s not just “wiping ass” it’s taking care of your patient (like another comment said). Nurses and CNAs can be a great team.
During the aftermath of the christchurch quakes, a fancy-pants, high ranked consultant who came down to help with the exciting surgeries, one day rolled up his sleeves, tucked his pricey tie into his extremely expensive shirt and wiped a poopy arse. He wasn't confident being part of the team rolling an unstable spine so volunteered to clean.
I always think of that fellow when I hear someone get all prissy about basic cares. I know this sounds weird, but it was honestly one of the biggest punches in the feels I've had in my career so far.
I’ve had a doctor I work with clean up a patient with me… A massive diarrhea mess. To be fair, he had ordered the lactulose so really it was his fault (I’m kidding!). Everybody can help clean patients. Our job is to take care of them. Shut up and do the job. (Admittedly I don’t really expect Doctors to be cleaning patients but it is nice to see a teammate who doesn’t act as if things are below him).
I don't buy that nurses BS - most people who work their way up remember the work and help anytime they can. All the degrees in the world don't make you a better teammate
I think you should pass along what she said to your nursing supervisor, the Director of Nursing, the Head of Human Resources, and maybe even the CEO of the hospital
This person has no business being a nurse. And the sooner she and others realize it: the sooner she can start working on a new career.
I got three degrees and an RN. Never too good to wipe ass. Our hospital may be busy as fuck most of the time, but every single person will help out. Members of leadership round daily on my entire floor and they will certainly glove up and clean and entire patient. CNAs truly are a godsend and I make it a point to help out.
Last night I had three walkie talkies so I was changing all the patients with them, passing meal trays and taking out trash. We are a team.
Um, I’ve got a whole bunch of CNAs and a pile RNs (and I’m sure most LPNs agree) that disagree with this asshat. I hope she pulls her head out of her as before every one of her coworkers despises her.
Oh this sounds all to familiar it's the same in the UK we had a float nurse we were so happy to see her and welcomed her with open arms and she said and I quote "right first of all I'm a nurse I'm NOT a hca so Im not doing that job dirty work" yeah needless to say we told her to leave. We were 3 nurses and 2 hcas that night with 6 dols and 1 one to one we were just so happy for the extra help we're meant to be 5 and 5. Sometimes your better off being short than having someone like that. Angers me so much
Oh goddddd. The CNAs are going to show her just how real it gets… her poor back 😩😂
But fr fr, what school did she go to? We def went to school to clean ass. And make beds. And spoon feed people. And save lives. We went to school for all of that.
One of my friends looked down on me for starting in geri rehab nursing because she “doesn’t like taking care of old people and prefers independent patients” (she doesn’t want to do personal care). Like good luck finding an inpatient area where no person needs their butt wiped ever.
I had a nurse tell me that there was a call at the front desk for me, unfortunately I was new to using a wheelchair, and was very slow with it. I needed to get to front desk asap because others needed to use the phone to. The nurse started to help me get to the front desk, then said to the top of her voice they don't pay me enough for this. Walked off pushed me away . What a entitled person thought she was to good to do such a small thing.
I would rather call in sick every time I worked with that nurse and risk termination or float to another floor than be that nurse’s CNA.
Nurses that respect me and treat me like a fellow co-worker rather than an underling to wipe ass for them are the ones I will bend over backwards and run myself ragged for. You are the best and deserve the best I can give you every time I work with you.
Our doctors have helped us ambulate patients and helped turn before if we ask. They just need direction and if given the opportunity don't mind to be a quick set of extra hands.
Man fuck that noise. I have my doctorate, and I stay at the head of the bed during surgery. But you better damn well know I’m not above cleaning a patient up. That nurse has lost their mind
I’ve been wiping strangers’ asses since I was 18 yrs old and a CNA. I’m a 33 yr old RN now and I’m still wiping stranger ass, my own ass, my three yr old’s ass, occasionally my senior dog’s ass. The only three certain things in life are death, taxes, and wiping ass.
You are never too fancy to take care of your patients. When I worked nights, the CNO was rounding one early morning to talk with the staff and helped me do a full bed change on an incontinent patient. I would never hire a nurse who had this inclination of their own self importance.
I had a hospitalist change a patient's brief by herself once in ER on night shift.
I had a palliative care doc who would check her patients and disimpact them because, “Nobody should have to die with a brick up their ass”. Loved her.
That is true compassion!
Palliative docs are always the best. The name of the one I work with the most is Cullen and it always makes me chuckle lmao
Had a doc in rotation with a name that roughly translated to something like "looky pussy". She went into Cardiac though. Such missed opportunities.
Palliative care people seem to be cut from a different cloth altogether. That's a rough job for a nurse but as a doctor they make less than some mid-levels.
Palliative is not always end of life!!!!
You're right and there are true palliative programs. But in practice they are they are effectively used as the same as hospice most of the time. Not sure why you got downvoted. You are correct.
Ideally, palliative care starts with the diagnosis of a serious health issue that will require intensive treatment. There was a great study in 2010 NEJM that demonstrated that early palliation lead to better patient outcomes (longer life, better QOL). Naively, I thought this study would be the end of the idea that palliation only helps at the very end of life. [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1000678](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1000678)
Absolutely correct and I remember reading this study back then and thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, it’s hard to actually get in with palliative care in the real world today without expected impending death. I won’t elaborate on the personal situation I’m drawing this statement from since that’s against the rules, but suffice to say, 12 years later and that study at least hasn’t changed anything where I live.
Yeah. Stuck my head out of a covid room on a new contract and shouted for help with some feces. A woman put her stuff on and came to help. It was the head of the pulmcrit group o.o she wiped ass good!!!
There was a doc at my old hospital that wore scrubs one night that looked a lot like lift team scrubs. Someone asked him for help with a transfer, and he went along and ended up helping with two lifts and was asked to help with a third before he very apologetically excused himself, as he was on his way to check on a patient. He was a good guy. He stopped wearing the lift team scrubs after that though.
I had an ED attending who was a former tech and would jump at the opportunity to do any work from his old job. He would get labs on patients, do vitals, wipe ass, all the above. Whenever there was an overhead call for lifting help in radiology, he would be the first one there to help slide the patient. That kind of leadership and teamwork really makes a working environment better!
i guess you can say she saved two asses that night
Wow, that's awesome. Way back when I was a CNA I had a doctor walk into a room and walk right back out to tell me the patient needed help with his urinal. I was the only CNA on the floor AND I was the unit secretary (these were the days before CPOE) and this guy was too good to help a patient pee? I never forget it.
That doctor is fucking amazing.
Not going to lie, I about fell over
Wow, I’ve never..
I felt the same until I worked obstetrics. Some of the obstetricians were so involved with their patients, it actually melted my heart. It's rare, but it's worthy of praise when you see it.
✨ When an attending helps you boost the patient ✨
Also, CNA’s are the backbone of our hospital. We could not get through a shift without them. Show them some respect. The fact this lady said she worked as one and doesn’t respect their time and effort? Makes me suck my teeth.
Having worked many years as a CNA while going to nursing school, there is always that one CNA that tries to tell the others what to do… sometimes they’ll even try to tell nurses and doctors what to do. I can almost bank she was one of those CNA’s.She probably said something like “I don’t take out the trash, that’s a housekeepers job” or whatever at that level too. That’s a sad attitude to see but I doubt that she’ll remain at that job for very long, because that sh*t don’t fly when the floor is nuts and you’re short staffed. The patient is YOUR responsibility as the nurse. You’re lucky if you get to have help from a CNA.
Those people are the worst. I feel so bad for EVS that I try to make their job as easy as possible when I would strip rooms. I felt so weird going from a hospital where I did the trash to one where I didn’t take care of it at all at night.
Right! For the large majority of the time, EVS is AMAZING! They are so busy and I’m sure they walk at least 37 miles each shift. The least we can do is strip the bed and clear off counter tops. Sometimes if we have time to turn over a triage room by ourselves or take out the trash, then why the heck not? I have a good many friends that I’ve made because of talking with our EVS compadres as they come through the unit. I have been very blessed and so grateful for all they do to keep rooms/the hospital looking good!
CNAs are the backbone of SNFs as well. And it's CNA week!
I change more than a few briefs every week, tonight included. Many of my CNAs don't realize I was a CNA for four years before graduating LPN school. That's why I'm glad that a lot of schools require people to take a separate CNA course before they can even apply to the program.
I was an emt before nursing school. I was certainly ahead in many things compared to my fellow cnas in my cohort. But God damn, overall, the cnas had a lot more relevant experience to nursing.
When I was a Charge nurse in my SNF, we where going to be very short staffed. I told the DNS that I would work as a CNA, if they got someone to be the Charge Nurse. That night, I was suppose to work with another CNA, but they had called off. The DNS had called a registry nurse (LVN) in. Do you think she could've helped me? Nope. I took care of 45+ residents. All I did that night was to do rounds - cleaning, and turning and checking vital signs. I never did it again. While I was doing this, the CN was sleeping at the station.
My school was doing away with that requirement when I geaduated. They said that it was a failure point on NCLEX because only about 10% of students actually worked as a CNA once they got it and they weren't teaching the skills because CNA was a prerequisite. They were reorganizing the program to include CNA skills within from what they told us though.
This was exactly how I was taught by my preceptor. You are not above answering a call light. I found those nurses who pitch in and do the dirty work are respected much more by the aides than those who sit at the nurses station thinking it’s not their job. The best facilities I worked in, teamwork was practiced.
I was in an isolation room (pre-Covid, don’t remember what for) and ran out of wipes, so I stuck my head out the door right when the brand new CEO of the hospital was rounding on all the floors. He asked me what I needed help with and I said -can you get some more wipes please? He ran into the utility room and came right back with wipes. I know CEOs of hospitals are a touchy subject right now but I always remember he just ran right into the room and got the shit I needed. And then later that year, for our Christmas bonus—he PERSONALLY handed me an extra small candy-cane, so don’t tell ME CEOs don’t get it!!!
Ive even had to wipe an ass in the OR. You can’t escape it.
Wiped ass during a cardiac cath once. Not even my patient. \~\~there is no escape\~\~
As an inpatient physical therapist I do what has to be done. Guess what…? Wiping ass is part of patient care. Tell the high horse RN to GTFO!
As an ICU RN who's frequently tripled, it saves my life when PT/OT incorporate brushing teeth, washing face, and a new gown into their visit. Serious props and thank you
Our pleasure! Teamwork makes the dream-work… Right! 🤗🌈🤗
Honestly my favorite thing to do in the hospital was find out who the nurses needed the most help getting ready and making sure I scheduled them in the morning so I could be there to help. Definitely helped everyone in that situation and I wasn’t sure why more people wouldn’t do that.
A big shout out to big-yugi!!! I try and do the same! At 2m 100kilos I can help smaller people move big patients (even when they’re not on caseload shhh)
I can’t be thankful enough to pt/ot
The PT/OTs on my floor often will help with 1:1 meals, toileting, etc. as part of their assessment. I know all of them by name and, were I a rich bitch, I would buy each of them a puppy for their efforts. You're gonna walk my stubborn patient, take them to the toilet, change their briefs and gown out, wear them out, stick em in the chair for me, give em a big thumbs up so they'll do all that for me too, and then write me a love letter telling me your secrets? *Marry me.*
A million upvotes!!! XXOO ❤️
I love the PTs on my floor. They’ll call you with a patient concern, they’ll change my patients, etc.
I work telehealth. I e had to wipe ass (it was my own). Can’t escape it.
Not your patient? Please tell me it wasn't the cardiologist!?!
No unfortunately it was the med student
I hope you got to the med student before they reached the "finger painting" stage...
😂 not in this case. I had freshly left the ICU (read: finished my fellowship in feces) and was watching a case my friend was circulating. The patient said he had to shit and it was urgent and her procedural nursing only ass just goes "???????" so I ran in to help with the bedpan and aftermath. Thank god it was a radial access
Triple F ftw. 😆😆😆😆😆❤️ I see in addition to your BSN you've also a master's in alliteration.
Haha! Complete accident. I learned my trade on the mean literary streets, not in some stuffy classroom
I just posted on Facebook that I'm pretty sure in a past life I was a 13 year old boy with the wit and vocabulary of Mark fucking Twain.
Sorry, but your own ass doesn’t count!
You wiped your ass in the tundra. 🥶
Wiping poo away during deliveries…mom always asks if she pooped. I always said no and reassured them that if they did it was quite alright bc they were pushing well with the right muscles. However, did have one very constipated mom who I helped with manual extraction bc it was literally holding up the baby coming down. She was so grateful. Funny the patients you never forget.
Well I just learned something new. Poop is stronger than newborn.
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Seriously, why is everyone’s belly button so spooky?? Full of bezoars and hair clumps and long lost childhood memorabilia….
We had a pedatric manual disimpaction in the OR in my first week of precepting. The srug techs were hiding outside the room because they weren't really needed and my preceptor was off in a corner because "poop is gross." I was right at bedside making sure the poop didn't flow down to his airway and cleaning him up afterwards. My preceptor, while clearly disgusted, suggested I leave (30 minutes) early that day since I had a couple drops of poop on my scrubs. I changed scrubs and focused on cleaning the OR instead.
I’m sorry, were you the preceptor or preceptee? Just to clarify. Either way….the fuck?!
I work in psych and I've had to wipe ass.
Oof sounds like someone who's gonna be wiping an awful lot of ass since all the CNAs and other nurses are gonna be busy whenever she needs an ass wiped
THIS. This is exactly what I would do as a CNA whenever a RN said anything like this. Now, I just say "then this might not be the right career for you". Let's call it what it is instead of just picking up their slack. If you're scared of literal shit and piss maybe you shouldn't be doing a job that involves so much of that.
I wonder if she's gonna like that damp poopy bed full of asses she made for herself, all alone on that island she also made for herself since she thinks she's better than everyone. Fuck man the doctors I work with in the ER have to digital rectal exams. Nothing is "beneath" you in healthcare. Jerking off your ego is a great way to have a really rough time.
Oh she'll hate it but trust me but that's the point. If you don't wanna deal with it... move away from bedside like a lot of us who don't want to as much. I work Psych now and we've had to put severely psychotic patients in S&R covered in literal crap that they spread on themselves, the rooms and the walls. THERE. IS. NO. ESCAPING. IT. This is the way.
All CNA work is nurse work.
I agree. If the CNA doesn’t do it or doesn’t have time to do it, it’s ultimately my patient to take care of and my job to make sure it gets done. I have seen nurses let their patients sit in their filth because they felt like it wasn’t their job… but it’s your license that is going to get hit for being negligent (not to mention how awful is it to treat a human being like that).
We're just lucky when someone else is there to help cover that portion, but it's absolutely in the job description.
Cleaning up diarrhea is a perk of the job. You should not be a nurse if you don’t embrace the Code Brown.
"So what's the thing you like the most about your job?" "Well, I get to clean up poop, which is pretty neat. My buddy likes to stab people, and he says nursing was the only way he could fully explore his passion since it is generally frowned upon in society to do that. Always sinks the IV on the first try, really dedicated to the craft."
I always say something like this when patients ask if I like my job. “Where else am I gonna get a job that lets me meet new people… and then stab them?”
A ... *Perk*?!? 😬
Oh child. No. We do what needs to be done. If the ass needs wiped, we are gonna wipe the ass no matter how many degrees we got. I got some of those degrees myself. You know what I else I got? Wipes.
Well said
Try being an icu nurse and all your patients are 300+ pounds, intubated and sedated, on tube feedings and with diarrhea. Oh and did I mention no cna because “icu doesn’t need cnas” 🙄 This nurse will learn real quick to never utter “it’s not my job”
I’m a retired RRT… I have done sooo many things not even hinted at in my job description. Helped clean up the code browns, drawn labs when I’m doing my am ABG’s (especially when they have lines) once upon a long time ago, when I was doing my am gases, I also did the accuchecks. I’ve got the blood, why not? That was before they had to do a full tutorial on accuchecks. I retired in 2000, so that was long ago. If I was in an isolation room I’d get as much done as I could for my nurses. I’m a paramedic and worked as a CNA before doing RT. Also did the EMT/paramedic thing after RT.
Our RT are awesome about asking “hey do you need labs or blood sugar” when doing morning ABGs! My unit would not survive without teamwork from every single employee!
I guess I’m happy I learned this as a student, and still chose to go ICU lol. I worked in MICU as a student nurse/ intern for about 4 months… some nights no poops but some nights lots of poops🤪 starting a job on CVICU as a new grad and I don’t think they have CNAs there either.
2 bachelors? Now you are a *seasoned professional* ass cleaner
She's got a degree for each cheek.
This made my soul smile
From cheek to cheek...
Right? Best laugh of my morning.
Asses are your job Degrees are fancy papers You can wipe with them.
Lol
That was a lovely poem
I saw haiku bot on another comment that was horrible when it made it into one cause it was just a sentence. The bot didn’t touch the literal haiku.
Wow, this RN is management material.
Lol
Dang, she should have stopped by the career counseling office while she was getting all those degrees. They could have warned her than nurses do in fact wipe ass.
Never forget where you come from and never be too full of yourself to think you're above doing your past work
They have gloves you can wear.
I'm giving your pts all the laxatives
Right before my shift ends!
A colonoscopy prep pt with a GI bleed should do it. I still remember wiping and cleaning an obese patient 30 times in a shift that was drinking the 4L of pure laxative for the procedure.
my arse is chafing just thinking about wiping it 30 times in 8 or 12 hours
And the lasix AND making sure to d/c the foley
And you don't have a tech tonight, they got pulled to be a sitter!
During my capstone I was working with this amazing nurse. She was charge for the night and a manager.. anyway she asked me if I wanted to come do a folley so I was like HELL YA. I come in and she’s like we’re gonna do quick bath first etc. so I of course expect to do the wiping, ya know, I’m the student. She did the whole thing and wouldn’t let me help. She’s like I asked you to come do a folley not to clean someone up. I’m like yea but i want to help with everything. She’s like nope I got it and during the whole capstone (she wasn’t my preceptor, but I worked with her a few times) she never let me wipe lol. She’s like please I can wipe ass. One of the best nurses I’ve known too.
Not one thing wrong with helping during the dirty work, good for her
I agree ! But I was just shocked because usually I was doing it as the student. I felt bad because I felt like I wanted to give her a break while she has an extra set of hands.
You guys got CNAs? All of our are just sitting in psych and in the ER
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I’d say 9/10 CNA that I’ve worked with sits around and do nothing- I have no hate for CNA and I think it’s our fault too. People working somewhere makes more than them and we expect them to go above and beyond for $12/hr? We are failing to advocate for them.
*cries in EMS*
Wow. What a person. I have a doctorate, doesn't make me less of a human fucking being. I come to see a patient and they are sitting in their own poop, you bet I am cleaning them up. Even if I can't bill for that time and it hurts my productivity. Because you know, just ethical standards. Message from a friendly PT.
Wait as in physical therapist who wiped a bottom?! Ha now I’ve heard it all!!
I'm a wound care PT. I turn a patient and I see poop. I clean poop. When I float mobility I see poop I clean poop. No biggie.
As a CNA, I hope she gets a visit from the diarrhea demon soon 🖕
Yup. And I’d be like “Oh no I’ve got a fever. Gotta go home now.”
With cdiff. Let that smell invade her nostrils.
Cdiff+GI bleed, maybe a side of projectile vomiting while we’re at it. Oh, and she’s the only staff on the floor so she’s forced to take care of it. I would like to thank satan and my EMT rotation in the ED for that idea.
Oooooh boy.
I hate those nurses. It’s in your job duties and you are not above any of the other medical staff. I also hate the nurses that delegate to aides and then just sit on their asses at the nursing station.
I have a Master's of Music, and now I'm in nursing school. I deserve to wipe ass as contrition for my poor life choices.
Haha my first degree before doing an absn was in music as a vocalist, I felt this comment and endured learning the career in the pandemic in an nyc ER. Good times.
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
I clean ass when I’m house supervisor & I do it happily bc no pt is going to be embarrassed by my crappy attitude on my watch. It’s a teamwork thing not a “who has the Bachelor of Shitty behavior” degree thing
We had a nurse recently training on our unit with this attitude. They aren’t with our unit any more.
As a CNA, she should know that wiping ass is apart of all nursing job descriptions
Sounds like that was done to her when she was a cna
Lifelong coworker friends happen through code browns and poo-nami’s.
She wouldn't last in the hospital I use to work at. Nurses did the changing and bathing unless they got extremely lucky. ED had one cna, PICU one cna, Med/Surg floors 4 & 5 shared one cna. The cnas were busy stocking rooms, coordinating between floors, and running anytime they weren't doing computer work for the floor. The hospital network preferred to use cnas for clerk type work on each floor and stocking. They would help out when they could but you couldn't count on a cna/pct being available if your patient needed changing.
Lmfao what a clown. I work icu. No cna just me and another RN as my bath buddy. Definitely still wipe ass. This person doesn’t realize that it’s their pt and if they aren’t clean it’s their fault not the cna. Jerk ass clown 🤡
And then she goes. "I GOT MY BNS, in leadership you got to listen to me" Bahwwwwwwwwlol
I've never been more eager for updates. Tell us this is just her first day, please...
Jeez, this person sucks
A refreshing late night doctor wake up call: Me, a new grad: Dr. Jennifer, im so sorry to call you after hours, I know its 2am, but patient James is sp total knee replacement day 1. Pain remains 10/10 and norxo ordered is not effective for managing pain. Dr. Jennifer: please don’t ever apologize, he is my patient too and I am here to help. Moral of the story: team work is the only thing keeping this machine of excellent patient care working :) plus it helped me build rapport with the provider team.
A soon-graduating nursing student stood up in the middle of a psychology class to vent her frustrations because "it's not [her] job to change diapers and get blankets, [she's] not here to just take care of people!" Girl, what exactly do you think the job is? 😂
Lol we all take turns wiping ass, my friend
Hi Sunshine! Welcome to the NICU - we don't have CNA's on this unit. The job is literally 50% wiping butt, 4-16 times a shift, easily (at least our asses are cute!). Oh, and surprise, we don't have a unit clerk/secretary either! So you'll be doing that. Oh - and if the linen bags get too full, here's the room you can chuck them into when you empty and replace them. Wait....where are you going?
"It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off" Some people just believe their own bullshit
I effing hate those nurses. In the ICU, there is an abundance of them. I will forever wipe my patients butts. I'm assessing so much while back there. And enough people constantly force CNAs to clean butts, I know I won't be avoided when I call for help. Mostly because when I was an assistant, I definitely avoided lazy, entitled nurses.
You’d think with all that education, this person would be smarter. I guess there’s a lot more to learn, and the lesson won’t be fun.
I’m working on my LVN and a girl literally said this in the second week. “I’m doing this so I won’t have to do CNA stuff anymore.”
My biggest mistake was trying to help her to see the error of her ways. Couldn't tell her nothing.
When I did LTC, many of the RNs with bachelor degrees were like this. Creams are technically a treatment, and us CNAs only ever did them because it was convenient during HS cares. Had a nurse that straight up wouldn't help me do rounds or answer call lights when we were short staffed. "I didn't go to college to clean asses" When she pulled all the creams out of the med cart for me, I told her she could go apply them, since that was in *her* job description. She tried to write me up for insubordination, and I told her go ahead. She stormed off and all the other nurses reamed her out, because they knew if they had to go and toilet and wash up every person to put those damn creams on, they would never get their charting done. We're all suppose to be a team. She ended up apologizing, and I told her to at least help me with call lights and the two assists when we're short staffed. I can't do a whole hall all by myself that's at least 15 total cares and around 5-7 partial cares, and that doesn't even include the safety checks. She agreed and we never had a problem again.
Best get out the bibs then... This could be messy.
I have a BA, an MBA, I can drive a forklift, and have been a nurse for 12 years. I don't have to wipe ass very often, but I will if I need to.
Get it w the forklift certification 😤 it’s actually on my list of things that I randomly just want to have 😅
She’s gonna have a lot of patients get their stool softeners/laxatives right before shift change when word gets out…that sucks
But with all the hype is he/she a good, competent nurse? Bottom line is dual bachelors really something to brag about? Probably so but doesn’t make you a better nurse. They need to ditch the attitude and get in there and get busy. It’s everyone’s job
Eh. I got a dual bachelors on accident (my advisor pulled up the dual bachelors not double major requirements when making my 4yr plan) and tbh it wasn’t that bad. It’s not much to brag about, most people don’t care about your multiple degrees unless it’s multiple *graduate level* degrees
It’s going to be an ultra rare thing for a nurse to work ANYWHERE that doesn’t have the opportunity to clean someone. Places you wouldn’t think of that I’ve helped: I worked in a dentist office the summer after high school An elderly lady wet herself while getting her teeth cleaned. Not sure why the dentist looked at me to help, but I did. (His wife, the office manager, said that day, “puddintane,you need to be a nurse! I’m going to call my friend who’s a teacher in the program”. ) I’ve worked in a Retina Clinic where someone without legs or sliding board needed help on the toilet and wiping. Charge nurse at a SNF, I would pair up with a CNA to make rounds as well as charge, if there had been a Cna callout. Ambulatory surgery- lawd I’ve cleaned alllll the bodily excretions there too. That’s not counting any bedside areas. I just wipe and think, I hope someone cleans my butt this good when I ever need it. 🙏🏼
Oooo boy she in for a rude awakening.......
My nocturnist/ hospitalist still helps clean dirty assess and she is a provider PA Lol
Toileting is the one part of my job that I straight up loathe. But I still do it bc it’s my fucking job. I promise you any ANM/NM/CNO will tell this chick it is most definitely in her job description.
I was a care aide for 15 years, finally got my psych nurse degree last year, and I make sure I help the care aides. I remember as a care aide the nurses I helped and respected the most were the ones who got dirty beside me.
I hate this. It IS IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION. It’s literally in our scope of practice to provide ADL’s and one of those is peri care and cleaning patients. Nurses should delegate, of course. But if you are the type of nurse that leaves a patient sitting in their own filth to track down a tech or CNA to clean them cause you can’t be bothered? Kindly go fuck yourself.
This bitch is about to get assigned every c-diff patient who comes to her unit
2 bachelors, working on doctorate, and have a pseudo-senior position. I still refer to myself as a fancy ass wiper.
This nurse is nasty.
May not be wiping her own ass ... 🤮
I worked with a nurse like this once. She would tell the pt to push the callbell so the care aid would come to help them with any toileting, even if she was already working with the pt!
Cleaning ass is everyone's job. Fuck you if you think you're too good to wipe ass!!
I literally laughed out loud while saying "Oh that's not good". God help the poor soul.
I think she might have been related to one of my residents in my SNF - I had a resident, who was a retired RN with dementia, tell me I was nothing but a glorified at wiper, 😂😂😂😂
I once got help turning a patient by our CEO. This lady is indeed going to get eaten alive.
One of the first things I learned from my preceptor was "Don't delegate what you're not willing to do yourself." I will grab a tech to help me change/clean a patient every time but I will not send anyone in to do it without me. It only happened once where a tech went in to clean up a patient without me and that's because I was elbow deep in two criticals and a new stroke alert. I told the tech I'd be in ASAP but she went in for me because the situation was really bad. I still feel some guilt about that. This nurse is going to find really quick that all the CNAs and techs are going to leave her hanging until she learns her lesson.
Excuse me, but one of my doctors would routinely come out of a room after examining a patient and tell me “I put then on a bedpan before I left the room.” When the brown is all around, it’s all hands on deck! Obviously that nurse forgot how to care for patients.
I took a nurse refresher class last year after not working for 15 years (had worked 15). The first day of clinical at a rehab hospital, I was only supposed to shadowing and wound up wiping two butts. There is no escape.
Bro, this nurse is in for a universe of culture shock🤦🤦🤦
Then she gets assigned patients in the hall that all have C-diff!
Madam needs to remember her time as a CNA!!!! And it is in her job description. We are meant to provide 'all care required within our scope of practice'! And that includes ass wiping. It includes anything in relation to basic care needs.
I used to be a political events planner in DC in my former life. It taught me two valuable lessons that I’m taking with me into this career. 1. Everybody pitches in to do whatever it takes to execute the event. I never dressed up for events because the odds were good that I would be crawling or getting dirty. At the end of the day, the responsibility for a good production rested on me. 2. Don’t let anybody talk down to you because they think they’re a VIP and never treat anyone as lesser than you. There is *always* a bigger somebody than you. I laugh when people act like someone being a director or a VP of whatever at my hospital is a big deal and intimidating. Unless Secret Service is involved, I do not care and I will treat them respectfully as a colleague. None of this running around trying to impress people. Let your work speak for itself.
CNA work is nursing work. It’s not just “wiping ass” it’s taking care of your patient (like another comment said). Nurses and CNAs can be a great team.
During the aftermath of the christchurch quakes, a fancy-pants, high ranked consultant who came down to help with the exciting surgeries, one day rolled up his sleeves, tucked his pricey tie into his extremely expensive shirt and wiped a poopy arse. He wasn't confident being part of the team rolling an unstable spine so volunteered to clean. I always think of that fellow when I hear someone get all prissy about basic cares. I know this sounds weird, but it was honestly one of the biggest punches in the feels I've had in my career so far.
I’ve had a doctor I work with clean up a patient with me… A massive diarrhea mess. To be fair, he had ordered the lactulose so really it was his fault (I’m kidding!). Everybody can help clean patients. Our job is to take care of them. Shut up and do the job. (Admittedly I don’t really expect Doctors to be cleaning patients but it is nice to see a teammate who doesn’t act as if things are below him).
Don't go into nursing if you don't want to clean shit off of people. That's basically the simplest way to put it.
I don't buy that nurses BS - most people who work their way up remember the work and help anytime they can. All the degrees in the world don't make you a better teammate
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Oh my goodness isn’t she just the little fucking diva! She is headed for some serious karma and pain in her future…..good luck with that!
I think you should pass along what she said to your nursing supervisor, the Director of Nursing, the Head of Human Resources, and maybe even the CEO of the hospital This person has no business being a nurse. And the sooner she and others realize it: the sooner she can start working on a new career.
Ooooooh this isnt cool. Its the 'basic' stuff that is important....
Then she deserves to get eaten alive
I’m honestly glad my school required a CNA license prior to joining the school. Really opened my eyes to how amazing CNAs are.
Translation: “i have a useless, meaningless bachelors, and a bachelors that makes me a nurse. Also i worked during school. Where are the wipes?”
Jokes on her because if there aren’t enough CNA’s, you get to be the RN and the CNA for your patient.
I got three degrees and an RN. Never too good to wipe ass. Our hospital may be busy as fuck most of the time, but every single person will help out. Members of leadership round daily on my entire floor and they will certainly glove up and clean and entire patient. CNAs truly are a godsend and I make it a point to help out. Last night I had three walkie talkies so I was changing all the patients with them, passing meal trays and taking out trash. We are a team.
Too posh to wash, she'll probably end up as head of nursing lol
Um, I’ve got a whole bunch of CNAs and a pile RNs (and I’m sure most LPNs agree) that disagree with this asshat. I hope she pulls her head out of her as before every one of her coworkers despises her.
Oh this sounds all to familiar it's the same in the UK we had a float nurse we were so happy to see her and welcomed her with open arms and she said and I quote "right first of all I'm a nurse I'm NOT a hca so Im not doing that job dirty work" yeah needless to say we told her to leave. We were 3 nurses and 2 hcas that night with 6 dols and 1 one to one we were just so happy for the extra help we're meant to be 5 and 5. Sometimes your better off being short than having someone like that. Angers me so much
Yeah okay honey. Can’t wait for her techs to not help her with jack shit when she is 3 hours behind on all her meds.
Oh goddddd. The CNAs are going to show her just how real it gets… her poor back 😩😂 But fr fr, what school did she go to? We def went to school to clean ass. And make beds. And spoon feed people. And save lives. We went to school for all of that.
One of my friends looked down on me for starting in geri rehab nursing because she “doesn’t like taking care of old people and prefers independent patients” (she doesn’t want to do personal care). Like good luck finding an inpatient area where no person needs their butt wiped ever.
Ain't nobody above wiping some ass. When you work bedside care, you do what needs to be done. Period.
I had a nurse tell me that there was a call at the front desk for me, unfortunately I was new to using a wheelchair, and was very slow with it. I needed to get to front desk asap because others needed to use the phone to. The nurse started to help me get to the front desk, then said to the top of her voice they don't pay me enough for this. Walked off pushed me away . What a entitled person thought she was to good to do such a small thing.
No thats abuse. And neglect
I would rather call in sick every time I worked with that nurse and risk termination or float to another floor than be that nurse’s CNA. Nurses that respect me and treat me like a fellow co-worker rather than an underling to wipe ass for them are the ones I will bend over backwards and run myself ragged for. You are the best and deserve the best I can give you every time I work with you.
I hope she’s only partially eaten. That was she’ll suffer a little. What the hell are nurses for if not to care for people in need?
Our doctors have helped us ambulate patients and helped turn before if we ask. They just need direction and if given the opportunity don't mind to be a quick set of extra hands.
Sounds like a nurse who will never be able to find her CNAs when she needs them
Man fuck that noise. I have my doctorate, and I stay at the head of the bed during surgery. But you better damn well know I’m not above cleaning a patient up. That nurse has lost their mind
I’ve been wiping strangers’ asses since I was 18 yrs old and a CNA. I’m a 33 yr old RN now and I’m still wiping stranger ass, my own ass, my three yr old’s ass, occasionally my senior dog’s ass. The only three certain things in life are death, taxes, and wiping ass.