3rd shifters, what are your duties?

[CJolin]

Sometimes I feel like I am a house keeper. Here is my list of things I do for the night. We have two cna's on duty for third shift, thats it. Oh, I also work in a CBRF assisted living. about 30 residents.

We have about 3 hrs of cleaning to do

clean bathrooms, toilets, sinks. showers, mop floors, clean windows, hand rails, etc.

Answer call lights for bathroom assists, there are about 8 residents that get up during the night.

Wash wheel chairs

2hr room checks. We just make sure they are still breathing.

Get up the partial assist patients starting around 5am. Helping them with peri care, and getting dressed. Most can brush their own hair and teeth and everything else.

make beds for the residedents we get up. Straighten up their rooms, suites.

help get breakfast ready, (make coffee, set up bowls of cereal.)

make sure med cart is stocked with supplies, and water. The med passer comes in around 7am.

thats about it. We have about a total of 2-3 hrs of down time, I usually find something to clean, or just sit around if there is nothing else to do.

So what does everyone else do on third shift?

Cari

[ER23]

I work third shift in the ER and we have to:

Answer call lights

Put patients on bedpans

Apply splints

Draw blood

Run blood and urine tests

Assist RNs with Foleys and other tasks

Ekgs ekgs ekgs ekgs

stocking linen and rooms

cleaning beds and rooms

bringing patients back from the waiting room

emptying dirty linen

Assist physicians w/pelvic exams

Meet squads in rooms and settle patients in

Vital signs

Transporting patient when admitted

Transporting patient to CT and ultrasound

And the list goes on and on and on........ :)

[25(2)+2]

i work in a nursing home. we have to aides on the floor for about 35 residents. we do rounds every 2 hrs. we get 8 residents up and dressed in the morning. one of them is basically independent i wash her back and make her bed empty her trash etc. the rest we do most of their cares and make their beds etc. we give at least one shower each morning except the weekends. during the night we have a schedule of chores cleaning wheelchairs, kitchenette, bedpans commodes urinals, putting towels and washcloths in rooms for morning, passing ice, putting linen in rooms for bedchanges, cleaning lifts, answering lights,and i am a med aide so when the nurse is busy on another floor i sometimes help pass meds. i also like to get the shower room ready for morning, and we clean brushes combs and razors. there usually isn't anytime for boredom. i don't mind doing these things because it helps make it a better place for these residents to live.