Different Shifts?

[FabulousGirl]

Hey all, I'm currently looking for my first CNA job and I was wondering what the different shifts do with their residents. I had my clinicals during the 3pm-11pm shift, so I know most of what goes on during that shift (feeding, showers, HS care, etc).

What's your typical day or night like, resident-wise? What do you do in the mornings, afternoons, and overnight?

I'd love to know!

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[MotivatedOne]

We do vitals every four hours, feed pts, we get admissions sometimes at 5 am in the morning. We sometimes have to transport patients to a xray room or to dialysis. Discharge pts. Get blood from the blood bank. Monitor pt's activity like every hour (check in on them) All during a 12 hour night shift from 6:30 pm to 7am.

The baths, and all meals are supposed to be taken care of during the day shift but if they aren't, we have to feed the pt's or give them a bath.

[DreamyEyes]

I work at an ALF (assisted living facility.) I work first shift, and this is the only shift I really like to work at my facility. Second shift is actually more busy at my work, and we're always short-staffed...people always call out on that shift. I usually work 6am-2pm or 7am-3pm. I love it because I have the rest of the afternoon to myself.

Right when I come in, I do assigned showers (for the residents that like to shower before breakfast), help residents get washed and dressed, etc. Then at 8 am we round everyone up for breakfast. We have 3 floors (two small dining rooms and one big dining room) - so we also help transport people on the first floor that are in wheel chairs to the big dining room. This is probably the craziest time of the day because you're running around like crazy.

After breakfast, I do assigned vitals, weights, finish assigned showers, do laundry, answer call-lights, etc. At around 12 pm we repeat the same thing over again, rounding people up for lunch and transporting residents to the 1st floor dining room. Then I usually go on break around this time, or after the resident's lunch depending on what time I came in that morning. After lunch it's pretty slow (or extremely busy depending on how often the resident's page us)...we just answer pages, do rounds, collect trash, pass out towels in resident's room, etc.

I'm sure I'm leaving out a few things, but that's typically what my day is like. Hope that helped. :)

[Okami_CCRN, BSN, RN]

I work 3-11 at my hospital and as soon as I come in I do vitals and then blood sugars, I then answer calls/change patients, then assist with RN's with any task necessary. At 8 I redo any abnormal vitals and do 9pm blood sugars and then begin the process of PM care and empty foleys.