Student nursing assistant vs care associate

Differences between student nursing assistant and care associate duties and responsibilities

Student nursing assistant example responsibilities.

• Insert straight catheters and manage Foley catheters.
• Manage memory unity within facility.
• Provide high-quality patient care within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation and nursing-home settings.
• Work with patients in a chemical dependent rehabilitation program and assess psychiatric patients in a therapeutic milieu floor.
• Provide high-quality resident care and assist with ADL.
• Obtain experience in performing 12 lead EKG tests.
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Care associate example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Provide direct care to patients in intensive care unit with empathy, compassion and enthusiasm.
• Utilize strong interpersonal skills to educate patients on procedures, rehabilitation and contraception methods.
• Care for patients requiring telemetry monitoring and work collaboratively with telemetry technician/nurses to detect and report abnormalities to physicians.
• Coordinate with clinicians to meet the specific needs of patients and perform clinical care in an ICU.
• Assign to new ER and ICU departments by leadership to maintain quality of patient care and increase patient satisfaction.
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