Student nursing assistant vs medication aide

Differences between student nursing assistant and medication aide 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.
Show more

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!
Show more