I work in the ER for reference. I have a CNA that is very sweet and helpful, but I am very weirded out how they talk at times with patients and even us and feel it's not appropriate. They use words like "baby", "bestie", "my love", "sweetheart", "honey", and yesterday, I was in a room and when they came in to help clean a patient, they entered the room saying, "hello beautiful". I asked them if they talk to people in their normal life like this and they said this is just how they talk. I asked them how a psych-trauma patient was doing and they said "like a baby bird with a fat cat watching them"- I still have no clue what that means in relations to the patient, but the way they said this was very funny. They called a resident a duckling and went "waddle, waddle', waddle" when a group of them was following after the attending. I don't have issues with them and I'm not accusing them of being sexually or physically inappropriate, but I don't think it's okay to talk to adults like this in healthcare. They do a great job with patients and I know I can count of them to chart, talk down the EODs, and do what I ask them. It just feels so odd to work in a professional setting where people come in literally dying at times and I hear them saying "bestie, have you tried not doing that?" when in reference to them coming in after a car accident. I try to remember the idea of "act how you would want your nurse to treat you" and I would NOT like it if I was talked to like this when I came in for severe pain or appendicitis. Is it just me?   submitted by   /u/Natural_Youth_5721 [link]   [comments]