Summary Report for – Nursing Assistants for Home Care assistance

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

Tasks:

• Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
• Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs.
• Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
• Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
• Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
• Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
• Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
• Review patients’ dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
• Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
• Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
• Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
• Supply, collect, or empty bedpans.
• Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
• Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
• Gather information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities.
• Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
• Prepare or serve food trays.
• Change bed linens or make beds.
• Exercise patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility.
• Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper.
• Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
• Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.
• Record height or weight of patients.
• Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
• Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum.
• Provide information, such as directions, visiting hours, or patient status information to visitors or callers.
• Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation.
• Set up treating or testing equipment, such as oxygen tents, portable radiograph (x-ray) equipment, or overhead irrigation bottles, as directed by a physician or nurse.
• Administer medications or treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, or douches, as directed by a physician or nurse.
• Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
• Stock or issue medical supplies, such as dressing packs or treatment trays.
• Explain medical instructions to patients or family members.
• Transport specimens, laboratory items, or pharmacy items, ensuring proper documentation and delivery to authorized personnel.

Technology Skills

• Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook 
• Video conferencing software — FaceTime 
• Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel 
• Word processing software — Microsoft Word

Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Skills

• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  
  

Abilities

• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without ‘giving out’ or fatiguing.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  
  

Work Activities

• Adjust positions of patients on beds or tables.
• Feed patients.
• Record vital statistics or other health information. Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety. Assist patients with daily activities.
• Monitor patients to detect health problems.
• Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
• Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
• Dispose of biomedical waste in accordance with standards.
• Interview patients to gather medical information.
• Prepare medical instruments or equipment for use.
• Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals. Clean patient rooms or patient treatment rooms.
• Administer therapy treatments to patients using hands or physical treatment aids.
• Stock medical or patient care supplies.
• Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.
• Operate medical equipment.
• Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
• Give medications or immunizations.
• Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
• Move patients to or from treatment areas.
• Collect biological specimens from patients.
• Explain technical medical information to patients. Transport biological or other medical materials. Provide basic information to guests, visitors, or clients.

Work Styles

• Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others’ needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
• Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
• Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
• Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good- natured, cooperative attitude.
• Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
• Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Independence — Job requires developing one’s own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
• Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
• Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
• Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work- related issues and problems.
  
  

Work Values

• Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
• Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
• Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.