subject: Nursing Assistant Training - Their Primary Focus [print this page] Nursing Assistant Training - Their Primary Focus
Nursing career demands a very stable and compassionate personality. The profession is mostly acquired with the females although men can also get in this profession but men usually do not go in this profession because mostly female gets the nursing jobs. There are three basic types of nurses and the nurse interacting most with the patients is a nursing assistant. The senior nurses also known as registered nurses do not stay with the patient all the time but the nursing assistants always stay with the patient. There are various duties which a nursing assistant performs and some of them are mentioned in this article. It is the duty of a nursing assistant to help the patient in ambulation. The assisting nurse also helps in patient's bed pan and keeps the record of the measurements of their intake and feces. A nursing assistant is responsible for patient's hygiene by giving them bed baths and cleaning their hands after having food, moreover a nursing assistant should be careful that they are not helping the patient more than they are required to, for example if a patient can eat by spoon but cannot fill the spoon, the nursing assistant should only help the patient in filling the spoon and not feed him by her own hands. It is also the responsibility of a nurse to keep the record of patient's vital signs.The job of nursing assistant requires some certification and to get this certification you will need to get cna training. There are number of schools present all over the country offering you different programs of the nursing assistant training. The standard training contains 11 modules in total which is usually completed in less than three months. It is advised that before taking admission in any school, you should check that the institute is accredited by the state's board of nursing. Red Cross which is a very famous institute in the field of medicine is also offering its services in 38 cities. If you are not able to pay the fees of training institutes, you can join a nursing home. There are many nursing homes which allow you to get your nursing assistant training for free, but they bound you to work only with them for particular time duration on a pre-decided pay which is normally not very high.Once you finish the training you will be appearing in an exam, which is conducted by the officials of government. This exam has two sections and the first section is about theoretical knowledge. This section of the exam will consist of 50 MCQS .The second part of the exam will be testing your practical skills in a real ward.A nursing have various job opportunities in different places like nursing homes, hospitals and small clinics. A nurse working in a hospital usually works for 40 hours in a week with two days of rest. A nursing assistant working at patient's home is required to be at her job round the clock but she also get some extra facilities like accommodation. A nursing assistant can earn from 10 dollars up to 18 dollars per hour which is high pay scale.
