Nursing Assistant (TCAE)

Ensure that the patient's basic hygiene, nutrition, and safety needs are met in a timely and proper manner, performing the necessary control and communication activities, updating the patient's information and progress, and also providing support to their families

1. Understand the motivating causes of their need for assistance, as well as the patient's particular circumstances, adapting the care activity to their specific individual requirements. Welcoming and orienting patients.
2. Reception of the documentation necessary for patient care.
3. Offer support to the nurse in performing dressings, sutures, catheterizations, and other prescribed or protocolized therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, and in collecting patient data that is useful for completing clinical documentation.
4. Perform the necessary activities in the care area to ensure a stay in accordance with the specified personal criteria of comfort, ease, hygiene, and diet, resolving all doubts and questions raised during their stay.
5. Classify linen for the purpose of replenishing flat linen and uniforms, interacting with the linen/laundry team, ensuring the correct classification and counting of these items.
6. Monitor the patient's general progress periodically to adapt to their needs in the different phases of their care, coordinating the activity with the work team. Facilitating their distribution and order.
7. Perform the maintenance and control of nursing supplies through replenishment, placement, and cleaning activities.
8. Transfer for fulfillment by orderlies, the verbal communications, documents, correspondence, or objects entrusted to them by their superiors.
9. Perform the recording of individual professional activities carried out for the patients.
10. In general, all those activities which, without having a professional healthcare character, serve to facilitate the functions of physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
11. Monitor and review that the different healthcare work areas are in optimal condition for the reception of new patients, coordinating the activity with the cleaning and maintenance service if necessary.