What to Expect at a CNA Position
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by: Hans Neukomm
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 Time: 10:55 AM
Certified Nursing Assistant, or CNA, is a health care professional who is trained to perform certain basic medical procedures and to help with basic life needs. To become nursing assistant, one needs to be legal age and take suitable training course. Although the minimal federal prerequisites are 75 hours for class and clinicals, most states have much higher requirements for Nursing Assistants to get certified. CNA courses are offered widely at different prices and lengths. But there are also many, who offer free CNA courses, usually community colleges or different health care facilities. Some of the providers may require preliminary test for basic education and English language to be passed before taking the actual class. Before starting their clinicals all prospective nursing assistants should provide medical exam which says that they are free from communicable diseases, able to lift up to 75 pound and are in good health in general . After successfully completing of all disciplines and labs , and taking the corresponding tests, a state test is needed for final certification. State tests consist of two parts : written test and practical test. If one fails on the written test they are not allowed to take the practical one and need to re-take the written test. And if one fails the practical test they are allowed for two more attempts, whenever and wherever scheduled state tests are conducted. Once nursing assistants get licensed, the most common places where they can find a work are : - nursing homes. - assisted living facilities. - hospitals. - Rehabilitation centers. - Physician's offices. - Special attention facilities. - home care. Each of the above mentioned job opportunities require more or less specific skills to be deployed, but as a rule all the skills can be mastered at one place : the nursing home. The more experience CNA-s have in the nursing home, the easier for them to find better job later. Nursing homes are skilled, long term health care facilities for people who lost the ability to take care of themselves : elderly ; handicapped ; people with severe illnesses , bound in bed for the rest of their lives ; humans on artificial life support etc.. The primary task for the nursing assistants, working in the nursing home, is to help patients with ADL-s (activities of daily life) and furnish all the everyday care, such as :. - dressing and undressing the residents. - changing state and repositioning bedridden residents. - feeding. - cleaning up residents' body excretions ( pee, feces etc.). - bathing residents. - changing linen and making beds. - transferring patients from bed to wheelchairs or other chairs and vice versa. - answering residents' calls for help. - observing patients conditions and reporting if there are any changes. - charting in special books for all work and observations done. CNA profession is one of the most extreme profession on today's job market place due to the work environment and specific duties. It is very demanding, physically and emotionally, work that requires all nursing assistants to be always in good physical shape and high state of mind to promptly respond to all challenges and successfully complete their duties. Rewards for CNA work are beyond this material world as this work substantially speeds up spiritual development of all humans and opens their hearts for each other and for God.
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