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Common basic tasks of a Certified Nursing Assistant:

  • Providing personal hygiene: You need to take care of the patient’s oral and personal hy-giene that includes dressing, bathing, shaving trimming their nails, etc.
  • Toileting Needs: You need to take good care of patient’s toileting needs. Bedpans should be given to the patient’s who are bed-ridden. As a part of duty at regular intervals you will have to empty the bedpans and catheter bags.
  • Supervising the Patients Health: You need to make a note of all the changes regarding the patient’s health and have to inform to the nurse who is on duty. In most of the hospi-tals or the nursing homes a CNA has to maintain a record about patient’s health condition.
  • Maintaining Patients Record: A medical report that includes patient’s blood pressure, body temperature, weight, pulse rate, level of body pain has to be maintained regularly. A CNA should also take notes of the treatments that are rendered to the patient.
  • Administering Medicines: Maintaining or administrating a proper record of medicines happens to be one of the most important responsibility or duty of CNA.
  • Dietary Care: A CNA have to aid the patient while feeding and walking. As per the doc-tors or dieticians prescription a CNA will also have to help in setting up a meal tray for the patients. It the CNA’s responsibility to feed the nutritional supplements to the patients ei-ther in the form food or fluids.
  • Assist during Surgery: As a part of duty, you will have to assist the nurses to prepare the patient before and after surgery.
  • Keep the patients away from Bed Sores: To prevent the bed sores for some of the pa-tients who are bed-ridden; you will be instructed to turn and reposition the patients.
  • Exercising patients: As per the doctor’s instruction, a CNA should aid the patient to exer-cise at the regular intervals of time.
  • Equipment Care: The most important duty of a CNA is to sterilize and keep the equip-ments clean after every use. Maintaining the nursing stations clean is also a duty of CNA.
  • Collecting Samples: Collecting the samples such as urine, sputum and stool to test in la-boratories is usually done by a CNA.
  • Transport Patients: It is the duty of a CNA to transport the patients from the medical wards to the operation theaters for surgeries, for therapy sessions or to the laboratories as instructed.
  • Change Dressing: As a part of duty it is necessary for a CNA to change the non-sterile dressing of the patients.
  • Assist in Equipment Usage: Helping the patients with the usage of equipments such as breathing apparatus etc is a duty of CNA.
  • Emotional Support: Care giving is one of the most important parts of a CNA’s life. Provid-ing emotional care to the patient generates an endless bond and it builds confidence in them.
  • Regulate Visitors: It is again a CNA’s responsibility to regulate the count of visitors who are visiting the patients every day.