Characteristics of nursing aid

Answer 1

In a hospital setting this would include ....

Duties include complete patient care, transportation, feeding, and emotional wellbeing of patients. Patient care includes complete bedbaths, toileting, linen changes, repositioning, stoma care, blood glucose testing, taking and recording of vital signs, aiding in dressing changes, post mortem care, answering patient call lights, and aiding nurses and securing the floor during a patient code.

In a nursing home/assisted living facility the duties are not so broad.

Duties include complete patient care, transportation, feeding, and emotional wellbeing of patients. Patient care includes complete bedbaths, toileting, linen changes, repositioning, answering call lights. Most of the work is bedbath, feeding, changing of beds, etc.