Certified Nursing Assistants & Home Health Aids
All referred Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and Home Health Aides (HHAs) meet all State standards and have verified and appropriate training, licenses, certificates and credentials. In addition, they also meet our high standards related to skill, knowledge, dependability and compassion, plus the have all passed an FBI Level 2 background check.
They provide a variety of services available 24 hours a day, including:
- Assistance with activities of daily living - moving from a bed to a chair, bathing, eating, toileting, walking, bed care/turning/skin monitoring and dressing
- Reinforcement of dressings
- Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair or a walker
- Assisting with the prescribed range of motion exercises
- Assisting with a prescribed ice cap or collar
- Conducting simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin
- Measuring and preparing special diets
- Measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, intake and output of fluids
- Tasks associated with the use of assistive devices
- Tasks associated with maintaining environment and resident safety
- Tasks associated with health related data gathering
- Recognition and reporting of abnormal findings, signs, symptoms
- Tasks associated with basic first aid, CPR, emergency care
- Tasks associated with nutrition and hydration
- Tasks associated with elimination
- Documenting services provided to the patient
- Maintaining a clean, safe and healthy environment including light housework, washing dishes, doing laundry, changing linens
- Assist the patient in the self administration of medication