Nursing Assistants

What Does a Nursing Assistants Do?

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
• 2Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
• 3Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
• 4Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
• 5Provide 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.
• 6Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
• 7Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
• 8Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.

Required Skills

• Active Listening
• Apache Spark
• Billing software
• Epic Systems
• FaceTime
• GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
• Health information database software
• Medical condition coding software
• Medical procedure coding software
• Medical record charting software
• MEDITECH software

Nursing Assistants Salary