Before the first round at midnight, I like to set out clothes for my get-ups and enough briefs for the night for everyone. Then fill your O2 portables and wash wheelchairs according to assignment. You will figure out which aides you like to follow quickly! Who leaves the hall neat, alarms set and residents dry, those aides you will adore. If you take a messy hall, it's all on you to fix it. If there are issues, the off going staff must address them. Check tab alarms and briefs before taking over the floor. When you first get in, get report from the aides going off shift, on how everyone's day was, who had BM's, who has diarhrea, who is combative or out of sorts, that kind of thing. My routine is pretty similar to Caliotter3. Continue to answer call lights and get people toileted and/or dressed until time to leave at 7 am. There may be people to get up and ready for the day at five, or else you will pass out warm washcloths for the residents to wash their faces and hands before breakfast. After rounds have been done and the vitals have been given to the nurse, do any tasks the nurse asks of you or do other things like cleaning items, whatever is usually done on night shift in your facility. Change incontinent residents and tuck everyone in. You go from one resident to the next checking to make sure they are clean and dry. One CNA would get vital signs while the other would start the first round. Then they would give us our assignments and give us the list of residents to obtain vital signs on. After doing this the nurses would have received report. After clocking in, we would go into each room and see if the residents were ok and check the outside windows or doors to make sure they were closed and locked (a lady had been attacked by an intruder). Assuming you are interviewing for a long term care facility.
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