Certified Nursing Assistant Resume Samples

Description :

1. Works alone giving total care or assists residents with: bed bath, tub bath, or shower.
2. Ambulating, transferring residents, positioning by using assistive devices such as a walker, wheelchair, hoyer lift, gait belt or lift sheets.
3. Feed residents, maintains intake and output as requested, weigh resident as instructed.
4. Observe and report physical and/or behavioral changes in resident immediately to charge nurse.
5. Participate in activities for cognitively impaired residents as directed.
6. Change schedule or work overtime on occasion to meet the needs of the department.
7. Maintain confidentiality of the entire department and organizational information.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Degree

Description :

1. Responsibilities assisting and caring for others providing assistance or personal care to others.
2. Monitor processes, material, surroundings monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished.
3. Establishing and maintaining relationships, developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others communicating with persons outside the organization.
4. Performing general physical activities performing physical activities, that may require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, and stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials.
5. Identifying objects, actions, and events identifying information received by making estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing changes in circumstances or events, with other workers, providing information to supervisors, fellow workers, and subordinates.
6. This information can be exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via telephone/electronic transfer.
7. Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate talking to others to effectively convey information, the relative costs and benefits of a potential action.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Diploma

Description :

1. Assist patients with all activities of daily living including bathing, oral care, feeding, toileting, and range of motion activities.
2. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
3. Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
4. Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
5. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
6. Responsible for reporting any significant information or change in patient condition to licensed nursing staff.
7. Responsible for accurate documentation of information related to the patients treatment.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Senior

Education

Nursing

Description :

1. Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
2. Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.
3. Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
4. Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
5. Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
6. Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
7. Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Health Administration

Description :

1. Turned and positioned patients, provided range of motion exercises, transferred patients to wheelchair/stretcher, assisted with ambulation.
2. Bathed patients, provided nail and hair care, gave oral hygiene, provided denture care, shaved patients, assisted with dressing and undressing.
3. Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
4. Perform housekeeping duties such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands.
5. Care for individuals or families during periods of time of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.
6. Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses of physiotherapists.
7. Create and maintain a safe environment for residents and staff, maintain and follow universal precautions.
8. Provided caring companionship to elderly and developmentally disabled patients.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Senior

Education

Diploma

Description :

1. Demonstrates the ability to obtain and record temperature, pulse, and respiration.
2. Recognizes and reports changes in resident conditions to a nurse, demonstrates knowledge of complications and asks appropriate questions to clarify the situation.
3. Performing various resident care activities and related nonprofessional services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comfort of the residents.
4. Responsible for the delivery of resident care (baths, personal grooming, feeding) as directed by the instructor, manager, rn, or lpn.
5. Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
6. Strives to incorporate the philosophy and mission of the facility and to incorporate the facility's goal of quality care in a personal manner with total regard for individual human dignity.
7. Coordinate clerical and other patient duties as it applies to nursing and hospital functions as needed.
8. Partnered with team of registered nurses to ensure over all well-being of all patients.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Nursing

Description :

1. Responsible for taking patient vital signs and recording input and output.
2. Observing and reporting changes in patient's condition to agencies clinical and administration staff.
3. Accurately prepares daily records and submitting them to the office by date due.
4. Effectively records pertinent information pertaining to the client's care.
5. Assisting or performing personal care including hair care, oral hygiene, bathing, grooming, and dressing.
6. Maintaining a safe, clean and healthy environment through light housekeeping including changing bed linens, dusting and vacuuming, cleaning kitchen and bathroom, and laundry.
7. Provided for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Healthcare Administration

Description :

1. Monitored patients condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and out put, and exercise.
2. Supported patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands.
3. Assisted patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing and grooming/ helped patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene.
4. Helped family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient; advising on nutrition, cleanliness and housekeeping.
5. Recorded patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions.
6. Maintained a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following asepses standards and procedures; maintaining security precautions; following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards.
7. Provided accurate and detailed charting, effective team collaboration, and patient care.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Senior

Education

CNA

Description :

1. Promote independence by encouraging patients to be self-sufficient where possible.
2. Perform or assist with light housekeeping duties to ensure a safe environment.
3. Monitor and assess conditions and report significant findings to hospice nurses, and to facility nurses.
4. Reposition and turn bedridden patients by ensuring that their dignity is maintained.
5. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
6. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
7. Served and collected food trays and fed the patients that required help.
8. Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, documents intake and output, as directed.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Nursing

Description :

1. Assumes responsibility for providing assistance in activities of daily living for individual.
2. Provide resident care, restorative services, treatments and charting activities on a regular and continuing basis.
3. Provide safe and individualized nursing care to long term care resident and to promote a sense of dignity and respect for the individuals.
4. Provide supervision to the individuals and ensure their safety and well-being.
5. Deliver quality and safe healthcare services to the resident assist patient in bathing, grooming, toileting and dressing activities.
6. Assist patients with mobility and encourage them to walk independently when possible reposition and turn patients on a constant basis to ward of possibilities of bedsores.
7. Measure and record patients' vitals such as temperature, blood sugar, blood pressure and pulse create, maintain and update patient records on a regular basis.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Certificate in Nursing

Description :

1. Responsibilities performed duties in care of patients in nursing home under direction of nursing and medical staff.
2. Provided resident with daily activity assistance in dressing, grooming, and bathing.
3. Answered signal lights, bells, and intercom system to determine patients' needs.
4. Structure and maintained a great work environment, and place of living for the resident.
5. Assist nursing staff with patient discharges by removing ints, foley catheters, and preparing patients for discharge.
6. Provided direct patient care for assigned patients under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse.
7. Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assess condition of patient.
8. Assisted in maintaining a home-life environment by providing emotional and social support, and encouraging independence.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Nursing Certificate

Description :

1. Provide unit clerical assistance, answering calls, submitting doctors orders, communicating effectively with other unit advisors, patient transports; mri, ct, x-ray, and other department units.
2. Transporting patients to ct, mri, x-ray, cath-lab, pre-op, ultrasound, ir.
3. Inputting orders while clerking and tubing blood draws to the lab, or walking specimens and blood cultures to the lab.
4. Responded appropriately to the physical, emotional and developmental needs of patients.
5. Obtained information about clients medical history, drug history, complaints and allergies.
6. Followed safe lifting techniques and individual resident lifting instructions.
7. Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, parkinson's disease, and muscular dystrophy.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Nursing