• Answering call buttons and alerting nurses to emergencies
• Monitoring patient needs and reporting any issues to other healthcare personnel
• Helping patients with their daily needs, such as eating, bathing, dressing, and toileting
• Ensuring patient comfort by changing bedding, filling water jugs, and positioning items so they are in reach
• Repositioning patients in beds
• Helping patients move from a bed to a chair or wheelchair and back
• Assisting with lifting patients from their bed to examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers
• Depending on state regulations and facility requirements, some CNAs may perform additional advanced duties that include:
• Measuring and recording food and liquid consumption
• Accompanying patients to off-site doctor appointments
• Stocking or issuing medical supplies, such as dressing packs or treatment trays
• Measuring vital signs, including blood pressure, oxygen level, and temperature
• Explaining medical procedures and tests to patients and their families
• Dispensing medication as prescribed
• Changing dressings and bandages