Nursing home aide vs health care assistant

Differences between nursing home aide and health care assistant duties and responsibilities

Nursing home aide example responsibilities.

• Perform Adl's medication administration.
• Assist nurse with the residents with their ADL.
• Treat each patient with genuine, compassion, kindness and respect.
• Assist with colostomy and catheter care under the supervision of the RN.
• Complete proper state training including blood borne pathogens, CPR training and others.
• Promote continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating to other caregivers the status of patients for which care is provided.
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Health care assistant example responsibilities.

• Monitor / enforce OSHA standards and coordinate / lead daily, weekly, and monthly safety meetings to educate staff.
• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Facilitate physical therapy exercises, positional rotation, monitor medication compliance and effects, provide companionship, carry out ADL's.
• care professional, extremely competent, providing guidance and counseling for rehabilitation of mentally disturb patients.
• Process consults requests for electrophysiology, EKG and other services.
• Assist train staff in the event of cardiac arrest and actively participate in CPR.
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