Nursing

I am a first year CNA student, I attend Hancock community technical center. Many people believe that being a CNA could be the worst job ever. At first I thought that too. Wiping butts, changeling peoples depends doesn't seem fun. However you are helping them when their family couldn't. You are making the family's life easier making them more happy knowing that their loved ones are being taken care of. I love the feeling knowing that I'm am doing something good for a family in need.

However some family members aren't so thankful. Some get mad when they find out that they have gotten sicker and blame it on the nurses. I want the family to realize that we are their family when they aren't around. We see them everyday. We get attached. We hold their hands and while their tears when the family isn't around. We see then go down hill and down hill fast. We are there for them. It's more then just a job to me.

Being a nurse is a hard job. You have to deal with the patient when they are at their worst. They will swing at you bite you, and scream at you. When that happens to me I don't get mad, I just keep doing what I am doing. I tell myself that they don't mean it, they are scared and don't know what is going on, don't know that you are trying to help them. Sure the job does get gross at times, but you learn to love it. Go in, in the morning and see their smiling faces, it just brightens up your day.

I feel the hardest thing to do or I should say not to do would get emotionally attached. I work in long term which is people with altzhimers. They aren't getting any better and most likely will die there, and I know that. However when you are with them everyday it makes it so much harder not to get attached. You think about them not only at work but it follows you home. I wounded how so and so are doing tonight? I think that to myself every night.