What a day

I got two take care of two rooms of patients (4 people) all by myself. Of course it took me as long as it takes the regular CNAs to do 3 or 4 rooms. This includes transferring patients from their beds to the bathroom chair, and then washing them and getting them dressed, and changing the linens on their beds. During one room, I accidentally touched the urine filled pads to my legs and felt disgusting the rest of the day. I also got to help hold a completely dependent person on her side while an LVN gave her an enema and pulled poop out of her butt. Thats the closest i've come to puking on the job so far. But I took deep breaths and got through it. I left the room feeling tough! No one else I know would have been able to do that with out vomiting, makes me feel like I'm really meant for this kind of work. But really, I just want to be an RN already!

Half Way

Oh man, I am officially half way done with my CNA program! I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Sometimes I can completely see myself doing this more than two days a week, other times I'm not so sure I'll be able to make it through the day. But when I'm feeling that way its not so much due to the nature of the work, but to the horrible teacher that I have. Even the CNAs we're working hate her. The CNA I followed around today just wouldn't give her the time of day, and would walk right past her if she tried to say anything to her.

Im still not used to the smell of nursing home. I can smell it now as I sit typing in bed.