Nurse Assistant Job Description
Nurse Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective nurse assistant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included nurse assistant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Nurse Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Nurse Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CNA, CPR
Education for Nurse Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the nurse assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Education, Patient Care, Nursing Program, Certified Nursing Assistant, Associates, Health Care, Leadership, Science, Graduate
Skills for Nurse Assistant
Desired skills for nurse assistant include:
Desired experience for nurse assistant includes:
Nurse Assistant Examples
Nurse Assistant Job Description
- Notifies Nurse Manager of unusual conditions involving staff, patients, visitors, or colleagues
- Initiates educational/in-service programs within nursing unit, and participates in approved projects to enhance unit/staff development, in order to promote clinical and leadership skills
- Ensures operational functioning of the hospital during non-business hours
- Audit intraoperative records
- Work as charge nurse, as needed
- Facilitate timely starts and maximize efficiency for all cases
- Assist with perioperative staff education
- Assist with leave reports and audit employee attendance
- Perform staff evaluations and monthly rounding
- Prepares schedule for pre-assigned standby
- Completion of a Nurse Assistant program with or without experience in the Nurse Assistant role or Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA-preferred) with or without experience in the Nurse Assistant role OR currently enrolled in a nursing program and have successfully completed the Fundamentals of Nursing course or foreign trained and licensed RN who has relocated to the United States and does not hold a Michigan RN license
- Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) preferred or are currently enrolled in a nursing program and have successfully completed Fundamentals of Nursing
- Must achieve and maintain appropriate facility identified national certification within one year of becoming ANM
- Additional Life Support Certifications per Department Standards
- Graduation (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing
- Working under the supervision of a RN/ LPN, the C.N.A
Nurse Assistant Job Description
- Delivers compassionate support, attention, and assistance to residents and families
- Answers patient calls and determines how best to help them
- Provides physical support for patients with daily activities and personal hygiene, including bathing, dressing, getting out of bed, using the toilet, walking, standing or exercising
- Ensures patients receive appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences
- Obtains and uses a wide range of information from physicians, caregivers and nurses about patient condition, treatment plans, and suggested activities to provide appropriate patient care
- Participate as a member of the health care team in providing patient care
- Maintain cleanliness and order in nursing units, diagnostic, and treatment areas
- Monitors performance of the staff and reports findings to the nurse manager or takes corrective action for improvement as appropriate
- Actively participates in the interview process/application selection
- Is involved in unit-department based budgeting and support of the budget
- Provides leadership in determining allocation of resources (financial, human, material and/or informational) based on systems and processes producing high quality outcomes
- Manages the resources (financial, human, material, informational) of a complex program or service in a manner, which applies professional standards of practice in the most effective, efficient method resulting in favorable outcomes
- Mentors and/or precepts staff
- Collaborates in the establishment of and supports a system for recognition of accomplishments and achievements by employees
- Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates education strategies to meet complex care needs, quality of care and patient safety within changing practices environments for diverse population groups
- Preferred successful completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant training course and/or possesses a significant amount of Nurse Assistant experience
Nurse Assistant Job Description
- Assists in establishing and maintains a patient care environment that is clean, safe, and conducive to patient/family well-being
- Prepare patient room for arrival, assists in transfers and or discharge of patients
- Measures and records food and liquid intake and urinary and fecal output and reporting changes to medical or nursing staff
- Records vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate as requested by staff or as ordered
- Examines patients to detect issues requiring medical care, including open wounds, bruises or blood in urine
- Delivers compassionate support, attention, and assistance to patients and families
- Ensures compliance with all health care regulations, including HIPAA and OSHA
- Maintains safe and clean working environment and protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control, hazardous waste and other policies and protocols
- Completion of an accredited certified nursing assistant or patient care assistant program OR completion of one semester of clinical at an accredited associate or bachelor degree nursing program
- Required to maintain current BCLS certification
- Six (6) month of job-related experience and/or training
- State Certified Nursing Assistant
- One month of job-related experience and/or training
- Six months experience with direct patient care in an acute care or skilled nursing facility OR completion of an accredited certified nursing assistant program OR completion of one semester of clinical at an accredited associate or bachelor degree nursing program
Nurse Assistant Job Description
- Previous working experience in specialized area such in acute nursing units preferred
- Certified Nurse Asst
- Successful completion of a Nurse Assistant Program, required
- CNA Cert or successful completion, 1 semester of clinical rotation
- Fingerprint Clearance
- Child Abuse History Clearance
- Completion of a Nurse Assistant Certification program or equivalent
- CPR issued by American Heart Association or Red Cross Certification
- The employee must have the ability to understand, communicate and react effectively to the unique needs of adolescent, adult and geriatric residents
- Must be currently listed as a Nursing Assistant I or II with no report of abuse or neglect by the Division of Facility Services
- CPR certification required and provided, or obtained during first week of hire
- Assumes the role of a staff nurse and is responsible for the delivery of coordinated nursing care for a patient or an assigned group of patients within a patient care unit and for the day-to-day management and supervision of the related clinical activities