As a cna or certified nursing assistant, you must know certain roles, responsibilities and duties which are very essential to help create a formidable job credit and appreciation from your supervisors.
As i introduced on the main page about the cna job description, this post takes into consideration and digs deeply to find all the duties and roles a cna must take, do or must be prepared to do when the necessity or opportunity arrives.
The purpose of a certified nursing assistant is to help patients by checking their vital signs by checking them constantly at scheduled periods, helping them through transportation within other parts of the hospital or facilities, grant comfort and emotional support, support and help patients to achieve personal hygiene with daily needs.
The following are the main job duties of a Certified Nursing Assistant
As i introduced on the main page about the cna job description, this post takes into consideration and digs deeply to find all the duties and roles a cna must take, do or must be prepared to do when the necessity or opportunity arrives.
The purpose of a certified nursing assistant is to help patients by checking their vital signs by checking them constantly at scheduled periods, helping them through transportation within other parts of the hospital or facilities, grant comfort and emotional support, support and help patients to achieve personal hygiene with daily needs.
The following are the main job duties of a Certified Nursing Assistant
- * Help patients with personal hygiene by giving them bedpans,bathing those who cant, rubbing their backs with ointments and pomades, adding shampoos to the hair of those who cant, shaving those who cant and not willing, helping patients to travel to the bathroom and easing places to receive comfort and ventilation, helping with showers and baths.
- * Gives patients adjunct care by providing enemas and assisting usage, douches, surgical preps, nonsterile dressing ,giving them ice packs, heat treatments, therapeutic baths and sitz and applying restraints.
- * Participating in patients daily activities by helping them and serving them meals, feeding those who cant, ambulating, turning patients to sideways and other suitable positions, providing them with fresh water and nutritional meals.
- * Providing resources to patients like materials, bed spreads,transporting patients, answering request from patients indoor calls, reporting severe observations to the nursing supervisors.
- * Preserve patient stability by checking their vital signs, weight, pressure,temperature, urine testing, recording output and intake of information.
- * Filling and completing forms, reports, file logs, and patient records.
- * Keeping patients information confidential by protecting them from unassigned people or unwanted request.
- * Following working code of conduct and following policies to maintain work operations.
- * Adding more value to your work by participating in voluntary help through the hospital by using your own will to design new help operations to patients, exploring opportunities which adds more and good reputation to your credibility.
- * Updating your knowledge as a cna through other educational trainings and opportunities, reading more cna stuffs from online, joining professional organizations and maintaining your license
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