CNA and their responsibilities

Healthcare is a extensively flourishing field in which nicely trained and certified people are considered who can provide a helping hand doctors and nurses in their pursuit so that they can emphasize on more important duties. Such aides are called nursing assistants, they are the people responsible for the face to face interaction with the patients and provide physical care as well as psychological support to them.

The duties of a nursing assistant are to provide care and support to the patients on daily basis and work under direct guidance of registered nurses, licensed nurses and other medical staff. They play a very vital role in rapid recovery of ill patients, as they are the one who are associated with the basic care of the patients by providing them feeding at correct time, bathing and dressing. The most important duty that a nursing assistant has to perform is to find out the crucial signs of the patient’s condition from time to time leading to the speedy recovery of the patient.

It must be known by now that being a nursing assistant or CNA does not limit to a job but it is job that comes with great responsibility and patience. So the foremost quality that a nursing assistant must possess is the caring nature and sense of responsibility.  Another very important thing is that one has to take a training to become a trained nursing assistant, under which one has to attend the CNA classes for up to 100 hrs, in which one is taught about the basics of the Nursing Assistance. The training follows with a certificate exam which a trained candidate has to clear, to be known as a Certified Nursing Assistant, the exam consists of two sections namely theory and practical.  

The theory classes for the training can be taken online also but to pass practical exam, one has to be go through proper practical training at a qualified training center, because in the practical exam one has to work on the people posing as real patients.

CNA training is provided at many world class institutes, nursing homes and from Red Cross society as well. The location of training institutes can be chosen on the basis of home location, because there are lot of training institutes who are authorized to provide training and certification at their level.

A Certified Trained Assistants are in huge demand in the health industry as there is a shortage due to the growing population. So one need not to worry about the job prospective of CNA

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