First Shift (7-3) CNA's

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Apr 7, 2009

I'm not a day shifter but yeah, rounds are when you change and reposition your residents. You have to write something down every 2 hours- "bathroom" "wet" "dry" "bedpan" "refused" "did not void" or whatever else.

texastaz · Apr 7, 2009

It goes something like this:

1. -Receive report from CNA getting off while doing a walk through with CNA getting off - usualy night shift will have one or two of your heavy residence dressed and ready, or some partialy dressed. Stack linen cart and get linen and trash barrels.

2. Get your most difficult patients dressed and ready for breakfast first. Strip/make beds as you go along.

3. Take residence to dining room, do assigned task in dining room, return residence to common area or their rooms.

4. Give residence showers.

5. Check residence to for diaper changes, fill water jugs.

6. Take residence to lunch, feed them, return them to their rooms to be put down for naps in gowns, change them.

7. Fill out your flow sheets, check residence make sure they are dry, make sure all trash it out and dirty linen is taken to laundry.

8. Yea :yeah: - ready for shift change.

jangelvi · Apr 9, 2009

I am a new CNA that will be starting in a few weeks on the day shift in the Rehab Dept of a snf. I really appreciate this thread and all the info i have received so far. Kudos to all!!!

:heartbeat

adorblepuppy · Apr 9, 2009

My place is a little different cause we only have 8 residents and i am the only cna in the facilty. The owners are completely hands-on.

But like the other cna said. I basicly do the same thing. I get them up in a certain order and have them have showers(help some).

Then they have breakfast, and after that i do an activity with them.

Then i go to lunch, then they have lunch. I help two go to the bathroom and put one to bed to take a nap. By then it is time to go home. They may sometimes be some changes in the routine but it is basically always the same.

sassyson_989 · Apr 14, 2009

My shift is from 6am-2pm but here goes....

1. get report

2. shower assigned residents(usualy 2 per aid)

3. get 8 am b/p's ( 5 residents)

4. I have 8 residents total, so get the remaining 6 dressed.

5. If I have bed ridden patients turn residents at 8 am.

6. Get residents to assigned dining room. (we have 4 different rooms that breakfast and lunch go on in)

7. each food room has assigned aids, so depending on what room you are working in depends on what you are doing at that time.

8. After breakfast(about 9:10 am) breaks start, and the ones left on the floor start toileting, changing and laying down residents

9. 10 am, turn bed ridden residents, and make sure waters and vitals are done by this time.

10. 10:30 lunches start for workers. While 2 aids are off the floor, we are changing and toileting again. Also make sure hydration cart has been passed

11. Lunch is served at noon, and morning process starts all over again.

12. 1 pm last breaks start, while some are on break, others are toileting, changing, repositioning, emptying caths, charting bm, FAR's, behavior logs,

13 just remember.......NO DAY IS TYPICAL!!!! There is always something that can throw you off (IE falls, a dying resident, a resident whom requires more in depth care, ect) To make it work you have to have TEAMWORK!!!!!! Remember the workload may be a bi**h, but you are there to make the lives of your residents the best it can be!! Always have a smile on your face, and dont let the residents see you upset...they have enough to deal with. They dont need the added burden of your trials!!

mcnasty · Apr 14, 2009

wow this is a great post and very informative to new or future cna's. routine/regimen always makes things go easier, (like chores) so knowing that there is some sort of method to it all (although maybe not always reliable) is comforting.

thanks!