The perspective of a Certificate Nurse Assistant during the corona virus is one of the many perspectives that is being overlooked. CNA works and interacts with patients everyday, some acts as sitters, some wash and clean patients some even help feed them who can not do so for themselves different CNAs work with different types of patients, some require a lot more precaution than others. COVID-19 patients are making CNAs more cautions in their daily activities. In this page we will look into a Washington post titled “ Covid-19 hits doctors, nurses and EMTs, threatening the health system” that explained the COVID-19 effect on healthcare workers and I want to nail it down to what this means from a CNA perspective. It is no secret that COVID-19 is not only air-born but is spreading mighty fast. CNAs still attend work everyday and have to take extra cautions that are affecting their everyday life, and risking theirs and their families lives. 

CNA new normal is constantly watching every move you make in your work environment and taking precautions when preparing to come home. A lot of units that were used for certain patients have been turned into a covid floor, so CNAs that originally work on these floors being used to working with certain patients are now working with patients who have covid-19. We all know that coronavirus is being taken seriously so health care workers who are working with Covid patients are taking all measures. Being a CNA, one of the health care workers who interact closely with these patients are different. Also in their environment and constantly caring for them re-masking and re-gloving 

According to this source, dozens of health-care workers have fallen ill with covid-19, and more are quarantined after exposure to the virus even after all precautions are being held there still a chance for these CNAs to catch covid. Not to mention CNAs have a life outside of work, like they always have. The fear of being it home to their loved ones. CNAs who have young kids, kids with weak immune systems, or the ones who stay with their parents or any elder.  They aren’t only risking their lives but the lives of their households. 

A few things that frighten me the most living with a CNA is the fact that this virus is unknown and is still being updated as we go alone. As a healthcare worker it is just difficult to adjust with the unknown, especially when you are a healthcare worker that is already overlooked. Not knowing what comes next and when. Trying to adjust to this new normal and now realizing that their career is risking their lives. 

In conclusion, everyone's life is changing right now and is being affected by covid-19, it’s upsetting. In this paper we look into the CNA lives and the changes that they are going through. As CNAs, their new normal is difficult just like all of us in this difficult time. CNAs still attend work everyday and have to take extra cautions that are affecting their everyday life, and risking theirs and their families lives.