CNA Night Duties

Love your avatar.

Pretty much they have rounds. That involves a routine tucking people in that are still up, taking vital signs (might be in the morning). A lot of patient care is the same as the dayshift minus a lot of other people running around. In some places night shift starts getting people up at a gawd-awful hour in the morning.

Lots of anecdotes on these links:

https://allnurses.com/duties-overnight-certified-nursing-assistant-t481147/

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-working-nights-as-a-CNA

Here's a nursing website promoting hourly rounds:

https://www.mghpcs.org/Innovation_Units/Documents/Blake12_HourlyRounding0613.pdf

It also depends on the "nursing" home. If it's assisted living, there's less monitoring and medication to deal with than full care nursing, which is more like any basic hospital rounds.

Jeff

What's "CNA"? Google is telling me it's a Netball Association.

I initially thought CNA was Chartered Nightshade Administrator (as Trump may next try to push for nightshade to cure the pearl harbor virus disease--if the patients are democrats).

But judging from the responses here, I think it is certified nursing assistants.

One of a CNA's duties is taking deceased bodies to the morgue. A friend who was one before getting her nursing degree told me a story of wheeling a body along only to have it suddenly sit upright on the trolley! Something to do with gases inside settling. Scared the crap out of her.