Nursing Aide

Position: Nursing Aide

Reports to: Senior Staff Nurse / Nurse Manager

Job Description

- Attends to residents’ needs

- Makes rounds to check residents’ condition regularly.

- Performed basic nursing duties such as:

• nasogastric feeding

• bathing and toileting

• wound dressing

• blood glucose monitoring

vital signs, such as:

• temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, pain score and oxygen saturation.

- Reports above to staff nurse accordingly.

- Assists staff nurse writing resident’s reports and documentation of resident’s vital signs and other charts.

- Supervises health care assistants.

- Makes and tidies beds with health care assistants.

- Assist residents in their activities of daily living (ADL), e.g. bathing, oral hygiene, dressing up, grooming.

- Attends monthly In-house training programmes, so as to update and upgrade own knowledge and skills.

- Attends monthly clinical staff meetings, so as to be updated on the latest happenings in the Nursing Home/

- Assists staff nurse to prepare Residents’ reports for Multidisciplinary Rounds presentation every 6 monthly.

-  Mentors newly employed NAs for 3 months, as and whenever assigned by the Nurse Manager and/or Director
of Nursing.

Qualifications/Experience

1) Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification License.

2) Diploma or Degree in Nursing (Preferred)

3) Some experience in a nursing home in a similar position.

4) Ability to communicate at all levels.