Travel Long Term Care CNA Jobs

LTC CNA jobs can be physically and emotionally demanding, but this career path can be highly rewarding. CNAs positively impact the health and happiness of long-term care residents and gain the trust, admiration, and gratitude of their families as they witness the safe, caring, and home-like environment CNAs help create for their loved ones. As more aging Americans seek long-term care facilities, the demand for competent CNAs continues to rise with employment projected to grow 8% from 2019 to 2029.

• Bathing, grooming, and dressing patients

• Serving meals and helping patients eat or drink

• Assisting with toileting and changing soiled linens

• Emptying bedpans and supplying new ones

• Turning and repositioning bed-ridden patients

• Exercising patients with restricted mobility or who are paralyzed or comatose

• Transferring patients between beds and wheelchairs

• Supervising and assisting with ambulation

• Transporting patients in wheelchairs or mobile beds for tests, treatments, or therapy

• Collecting specimens as ordered for tests and delivering to authorized personnel

• Reminding patients to take medications

• Providing companionship and preventing loneliness

• Measuring and recording vital signs, including temperature and blood pressure

• Measuring and recording food/liquid intake and urine/fecal output

• Recording patients’ health concerns/complaints and reporting to RNs

• Contacting medical providers if there’s a decline in a patient’s health

• Applying clean dressings, bandages, or slings under RN or physician direction

• Answering patient call signals to determine patients’ needs

• Restocking patients’ rooms with personal hygiene items

Successful LTC CNAs are also detail-oriented and have keen assessment skills and social perceptiveness that allow them to be more attuned to LTC residents’ day-to-day norms and notice subtle changes in their health and/or behavior. They have a highly effective communication style and are active listeners with an empathetic attitude that lets them listen and respond to residents in a caring, compassionate manner.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing offers the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program, the largest nursing assistant certification program in the nation. Twenty NCSBN jurisdictions utilize the NNAAP exam to determine competency. A prospective nursing assistant must pass both components of the exam before their name can be added to the state registry. CNAs must be on the state registry to work in a nursing home.

Some states let CNAs earn additional credentials, such as the Certified Medication Assistant, which allows them to dispense medications. The NCSBN offers the Medication Aide Certification Examination to fulfill this credential. Many facilities also require CNAs to have Basic Life Support certification.