Can a CNA work in the Labor/Delivery Part of the hospital?

[airbear5]

I was wondering if a CNA can work in the labor/delivery area in a hospital, and if so what are they able to do?

[BabyRN2Be]

Where I work, a CNA can work in L&D. They are responsible for stocking, preparing the triage room for the next patient, emptying trash - if cross-trained, they will also manage the secretarial aspect of answering phones, requesting info from medical records, running stuff to the lab of necessary, and making beds. There are a few more tasks which they are responsible for, but at the moment I'm a little too tired to remember. :) If I do remember, I'll come back and post.

They usually don't tend deliveries where I work unless they were incredibly short of hands, but as I remember, that rarely happened.

[racing-mom4, BSN, RN]

I did only when they were full. I would take mom and baby vitals, I would feed the babies and give them their baths and rock them if they were crying. I would help moms to the bathroom. Plus stock/pass water/and other CNA duties. I would not chart anything, I would just give all my information to the nurses to chart.