Personal Experience: A Career As A Certified Nursing Assistant

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I have worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant for seven years caring for patients and residents in a hospital, nursing home and assisted living facilities. Subsequently, when a patient has died in the hospital it was my responsibility to clean, tag (toe tag) and bag then transport the deceased patient on a gurney to the hospital morgue. In addition, I have notified the next-of kin for deceased patients under the direction of a nurse supervisor. Secondly, I have been exposed to human remain while employed as a Crime Scene Technician and through Autopsy viewings (a part of training I viewed autopsies being conducted) held by the Orleans Parish Coroner's