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.
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.
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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........ :)