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.