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Do certified nursing assistants (CNA's) clean bottoms and other various bodily fluids?


Need to know beforehand what this could entail.

Yes they do. Sometimes the licensed nurse will help you though.

My sister is a CNA. It is difficult work, and sometimes pretty messy, but she really gets to know and care about her clients. Many of them are very sweet to her as well.

She works for an "at home" service, where she cleans house, does laundry, cooks meals and helps the client bathe, and sets up meds in "daily dose" boxes, among other duties. When she worked at the nursing home, she started as an aide - all the heavy lifting and dirty work. She eventually became the "bath lady" in the Alzheimer's ward because she had a way of soothing the patients at what is often a stressful time for them. Not everyone is cut out for the work. It suits her "little mother" personality.

Yes, but they have other job duties as well, they take vital signs, do some desk duties, and provide multiple care functions to patients. Nurse's also help with these duties.

yes they do and many more unpleasant things vomit, mucus, blood, a dead resident. if you are thinking about going into cna there are good points to it. i did it for ten years and learned alot about life good times and bad. i had a resident meaner then heck no one realy wanted to help her because she was mean until i took her outside on my break one day after that she was nicer to everyone because someone showed her that she was importnant enough to someone.

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