Student nursing assistant vs resident care associate

Differences between student nursing assistant and resident 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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Resident care associate example responsibilities.

• Assist Alzheimer patients with daily activities including personal care, administering medications and communicating with their families.
• Assist in rehabilitation to transfer home.
• Have been train to administer medication, CPR train, and mechanical lift train.
• Maintain cleanliness throughout med pass, and practice aseptic technique when pouring and assisting with medication.
• Assist with ADL's, medication assistance, dinning room service, answering the telephones and front desk monitoring.
• Care for residents with diagnosis such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and arthritis.
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