The patients admitted into the hospitals will have to be taken care of by the duty nurses, mostly certified nursing assistants, or CNAs, for general care and follow up of the treatment as per the instruction of the attending doctor or the registered nurse.
Normally, each CNA will have a fixed working time and he or she will be relieved from the duties from the other nurse taking over the shift duties. The nurses will be changing after the shift period ends, but the patients might be there in the hospital ward for treatment for a longer period of time, may be a couple of days or more depending upon the intensity of their ailment.
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Nursing assistant is hardly known by people. People think that it is just the doctor and nurse, which contribute to the care and health of the patient. They don’t even know that there are many other people who work in hospitals and are equally responsible for the health and treatment of the patient. They also play a major role in rehabilitation and treatment of the patients. The most important among such people are the nursing assistants.
These nursing assistants are responsible for the care provided at bed side for the patients. They are certified assistants. CNA duties are to make the patient perform their day to day activities like taking a bath, eating their food by themselves, changing their attires [...] Continue Reading…
Nurses who prescribe medications to the patient should be very careful. They need to know the patient’s medical condition and health history. Knowledge about the drug’s adverse effects before prescribing is highly essential. People who are affected by adverse drug effects will greatly contributes to poor health, may suffer from pain and discomfort, and may even lose their earnings. Hence, everyone disturbed by it are suffering in different levels in reference to the severity. The nurses involved may lose confidence with themselves and in few circumstance, they may even lose their profession as a nurse by confiscation of their license to practice.
The performance of nurses can be predicted by their work on how they prescribe medications for individual [...] Continue Reading…