Job Description

A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is a state certified professional that provides direct, hands-on care to patients in various settings within healthcare. CNAs are tasked with assisting in the direct daily care of patients under the supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN), or a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). Nursing Assistants provide care associated with every aspect of a patient’s day to day living needs and is referred to as “activities of daily living”, or “ADLs”. In addition to ADLs, a CNA is also responsible for monitoring and reporting health changes to other staff members, and many other healthcare related tasks. Overall, many CNA job duties include:

• Assisting patients with getting in and out of bed 
• Assisting patients with personal and oral hygiene 
• Performing basic movement exercises 
• Assisting in repositioning immobile patients 
• Serving meals and assisting patients with eating 
• Monitoring food, water, and medication intake 
• Taking and reporting vital statistics 
• Monitoring and reporting any behavior, health, or vital statistic changes 
• Assisting patients in mobility 
• Offering compassion to patients and loved ones 
• Traveling to multiple locations (for positions that require travel) 
• Ability to care for multiple patients at once 

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