Assistant in Nursing http://aincertification.com AIN Training & AIN Certification Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:04:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Assistant In Nursing http://aincertification.com/ http://aincertification.com/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:20:18 +0000 Terry http://aincertification.com/?page_id=413 The term Assistant in Nursing can be shortened to AIN in the southern hemisphere or CNA – Certified Nursing Assistant if you live in the United States. Nursing assistants can be referred to as nurse aides, who work under the directions and supervision of senior nursing and medical staff. Assistant nurses have a greater deal of contact and care with patients and often the patient’s immediate family members. Assistant in nursing staff provide all hygienic care such as feeding, bathing, dressing and making record of day to day medical treatments given. Nursing assistant staff also perform many other important vital functions, such as taking the patient’s vital signs and recording them on the patient chart, answering patient calls, transporting patients, making beds, helping patients become ambulatory and might also be required to set up x-ray machines or over headed irrigation bottles. In simple terms, there are many duties which cannot be fulfilled by a Registered or Enrolled Nurse as their time is spent performing clinical tasks. The assistant in nursing staff are in a better position to observe their patients and to report to doctors and clinical staff, how the patient is responding to the care that is being given. [...]

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