General Care-Common for ALL Skills HERE:

1. Communication: Residents have the right to know what is happening to and around them.
2. Autonomy: This means deciding for one's self how to live one's life, being independent and making one's own decisions.
3. Respect: simple courtesies such as addressing resident by their preferred name, knocking on doors, saying please, asking permission, providing privacy. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
4. Maximizing Capabilities: Emphasize what the patient can still do, not what they can't do. Help them to be the best that they can be!
5. Safety* and Comfort: being free from harm or risk, secure from threat of danger. Ask resident if comfortable.
6. Infection Control*: Preventing the transmission of infection with use of infection control precautions, ie hand-washing and wearing gloves when handling bodily fluids.
7. Observation: watching and paying attention to details. CNAs are the EYES and EARS of nursing.
8. Time Management: the ability to organize your activities & perform them efficiently. This is probably the hardest task for the new CNA to conquer in the typical long-term care setting.

*SAFETY & INFECTION CONTROL

• Lock BOTH brakes on the wheelchair
• Lock wheels on the bed
• Place bed in the lowest position before leaving
• Place call light within reach before leaving
• Non-skid footwear on client's feet before standing
• Use gaitbelt 
• Check water temp before washing
• Heating pads used ONLY as prescribed or directed IF at all
• Handwashing (asepsis)
• Sanitize=Disinfect
• Sterilization is boiled/steamed/autoclaved over 240* Do not confuse sterilization with sanitization.
• Clean old-fashioned thermometer with soap and cool water, otherwise use disposable sheaths and/or alcohol wipes.