Duties/
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
CNA
assigned tasks, such as taking vital signs, and provides or assists with routine personal care, such as bathing residents and helping with toileting.
Helping residents with toileting needs
Assisting residents to move around safely
Keeping residents' living areas neat and clean
Encouraging residents to eat and drink
Caring for supplies and equipment Helping residents dress
Making beds Giving backrubs
Helping residents with mouth care
Compassionate
Being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and understanding
Empathetic
Identifying with the feelings of others
Who can delegate tasks?
RN, LPN, MD, OT, PT
Doctor or Physician
MD or DO
LPN
administers medications and gives treatments. LPNs may also supervise nursing assistants' daily care of residents and delegate.
Honest
Being truthful
Sympathetic
Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others
Means transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task.
Delegation
Registered Dietitian
RDT
Doctor
Diagnose disease or disability and prescribe treatment.
Unprejudiced
Giving the same quality of care regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, or condition.
Respectful
Valuing other people's individuality and treating others politely and kindly
Nursing Process
Assess
Diagnose
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Occupational Therapist
OT
RN
Coordinates, manages, and provides skilled nursing care. This includes administering special treatments and giving medication as prescribed by a physician. A registered nurse also assigns tasks and supervises daily care of residents by nursing assistants and delegates.
Tactful
Showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others
Dependable
Getting to work on time and doing assigned tasks skillfully
List 5 guidelines for managing time.
Plan Ahead
Prioritize
Make a Schedule
Combine Activities
Get Help
Speech Language Pathologist
SLP
CNAs cannot do:
Nursing assistants are not allowed to insert or remove tubes, change sterile dressings, administer medications, or give tube feedings.
Conscientious
Being guided by a sense of right and wrong and having principles
Tolerant
Putting aside personal opinions and not judging others
5 Rights of Delegation
Right Task
Right Circumstance
Right Person
Right Direction/Communication
Right Supervision/Evaluation
ADL
Activities of Daily Living