Cna at hospital?
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It depends on your hospital's policies. Where I work, CNAs can do blood glucose monitoring, pick up blood orders for RNs, apply heart monitors, discharge patients, help transfer patients to different floors, ostomy care, and basic CNA duties (vital signs, bed baths, commodes, changing linens/gowns, diaper changing, perineal care and all that good stuff you were trained to do). You are doing your duties as a CNA plus helping the RN... When he/she needs something, you are there to give assistance.
You may or may not do all the things I listed. I told my best friend who is an RN living in a different county than I about the CNA duties at my hospital and he tells me that the CNA's at his hospital are not allowed to do blood glucose or pick up blood orders (we live in California).
My sister-in-law is a CNA in Missouri and she tells me that she is allowed to insert foley catheters, which we are not allowed to do here. So it all depends on your hospital and state policies.
If you want to know the definite details of yor duties, you should go to human resources and ask for a job description. They should be able to tell you what you will be doing.
they assist the nurses on staff by doing the hands on work, such as bathing, changing the lines on the bed for the patient, and in general can be alot of comfort to a patient, because they tend to be able to sit and talk to a lonely, recovering person in a hospital bed. They are what makes the charge nurse look real good in the fact that she/he has a great team member.
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