Certified Nursing Assistant; CNA

Activities

• Assisting/giving complete or partial tub and/or shower baths.
• Providing oral hygiene, including care of dentures.
• Providing care of the hair.
• Turning and positioning patients.
• Assisting with eating.
• Assisting/encouraging client to follow exercise program.
• Assisting with ROM (Range of Motion) exercises.
• Supervising ADL (Activities of Daily Living).
• Assisting with ambulation.
• Assisting patients to chairs, bed, stretcher and commode.
• Giving back rubs.
• Taking and reporting TPR.
• Making occupied, unoccupied and preoperative beds.
• Assisting in preparing patients for surgery.
• Distributing drinking water.
• Giving bedpans and urinals.
• Measuring and recording intake and output.
• Collecting urine and stool specimens.
• Testing urine for sugar and acetone.
• Providing morning and evening care.
• Assisting with postmortem care.
• Cleaning a patient’s unit.
• Keeping a record of observations and care given.
• Informing charge nurse of changes in patient’s condition.
• Safeguarding equipment and supplies.

The Nursing Assistants with additional training and performance may assist with certain procedures. Only Nursing Assistants with documented skills in performing these functions may:

• Take and report blood pressure.
• Apply hot water bottles.
• Treat decubiti if no medication is applied.
• Apply ice bags.
• Give enemas.
• Insert rectal tubes.
• Administer oxygen by nasal cannula or mask.
• Apply binders and Ace bandages.
• Give gastrostomy tube feedings.

Nursing Assistant may not:

• Administer medications.
• Irrigate urinary catheters.
• Give nasogastric tube feedings.
• Perform any duties or procedures which require the skills or education of a licensed nurse.

• CNA
  
  Experience:
  
  1 year (Required)