A Mississippi nurse, Bella, calls out fellow nurses for allegedly refusing to help with CNA work. She kicks the video off by saying, “Listen up, buttercup, yes you do.” She calls out the misconception that nurses are only there to give medications and uses TikTok to correct it. It has over 174,000 views and over 20,000 likes.
A CNA provides hands-on patient care, and in this instance, they help clean and change patients. However, there are some nurses who allegedly feel they shouldn’t have to assist in this type of care. Bella uses a prime example from her job to explain why this is false. Allegedly, a CNA was having issues changing a patient “three times in a 45-minute span, and after that, he proceeded to try and put feces on her.” The woman was so overwhelmed that she just decided to leave the facility. Meanwhile, this left “a hallway full of patients that still need to be changed.”
In response, Bella “knuckled up” and did what she had to do. She explains that the patients had a right to be clean. There isn’t a choice when it comes to proper healthcare. She claims that she has seen other nurses who have said, “Oh, I’m the nurse. I don’t have to do CNA work.” For her, it’s not a big deal to lend a hand. Her nursing program had them do CNA work for their clinicals instead of just medication, which she feels is a necessary part of being a nurse. Bella explains, “It’s still part of your job, babe.” These workers are overworked and underpaid. So at times, they may leave, as happened at Bella’s job, and she doesn’t blame them. When this happens, she believes nurses need to step in and help.
Healthcare Workers React To Mississippi Video
Several in the healthcare industry sound off in the comments. A Director of Nursing says, “I still change patients. Feed them! I will fire a nurse in my center if they refuse to help.” Another healthcare worker says, “Mad respect to you for not thinking you are too good to help the girls and patients.” A third commenter agrees, “Say it louder for the ones in the back, Sis.”
Meanwhile, CNAs thank her for sticking up for them and share their experiences arguing with nurses over this very topic. Another CNA says, “I’m not asking you to always do ‘my job’ in a sense, but if you see we in a bind… you can’t do a lil basic care!?” Another claims that a nurse “literally saw the light of a patient, who can walk to the bathroom but needs a little assistance, and ignored it on purpose.” One commenter claims they “dropped out of nursing school and applied to and finished respiratory school all because of how nurses treated me.”
Bella often shares videos of what it’s like being a nurse in Mississippi on her channel @lifeeofbella.
