Registered nursing assistant vs medication aide

Differences between registered nursing assistant and medication aide duties and responsibilities

Registered nursing assistant example responsibilities.

• Train in Phlebotomy, CPR, EKG, blood draws and train new staff.
• Provide ACLS care to patients.
• Learned how to use a Hoyer lift, sit-to-stand, and automatic blood pressure machine.
• Select to train new staff in resident care, resulting in more team cohesion/increas collaboration and compassion for residents.
• Maintain strict monitoring, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of specialize hemodialysis equipment to ensure patient safety.
• Provide one-on-one rehabilitative physical therapy care to geriatric, orthopedic, and neurological cases in a home healthcare setting.
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Medication aide example responsibilities.

• Manage memory unity within facility.
• Provide care for patients in need of long term care and rehabilitation.
• Administer medication according to state laws and guidelines as well as facility guidelines and assist residents with ADL's.
• preserve patient's dignity while providing such duties as bedpan changes, bathing, diapering, emptying catheter and colostomy bags.
• Assist with changing colostomy bags.
• learned to be more efficient with time restraints!
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