How do they match: Nursing Assistants

  • Health Aide
  • Health Care Aide
  • Health Care Assistant
  • Health Service Worker
  • Psychiatric Attendant
  • Certified Medication Aide
  • Certified Nurse Aide
  • Certified Nurses Aide
  • Certified Residential Medication Aide
  • Competency Evaluated Nurse Aide
  • First Aid Attendant
  • First Aid Nurse
  • Gericare Aide
  • Hospice Aide
  • Hospital Aide
  • Inpatient Nursing Aide
  • Institutional Aide
  • Medical Aide
  • Medication Aide
  • Nurse Aide
  • Nurses' Aide
  • Nursing Aide
  • Nursing Home Aide
  • Restorative Aide
  • Surgical Aide
  • Ward Aide

  • Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

  • Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
  • Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
  • Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.

  • Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
  • Administer therapy treatments to patients using hands or physical treatment aids.
  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
  • Monitor patients to detect health problems.
  • Record vital statistics or other health information.