nursing aide
Hospital support staff
A nursing aide is a healthcare worker who assists nurses by providing basic patient care—bathing, feeding, dressing, and helping patients move.
Also called a nurse's aide or certified nursing assistant (CNA).
Nursing aides work in hospitals, nursing homes, and home care settings, handling routine tasks that don't require a nursing license: She worked as a nursing aide while finishing her degree.
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- orderlyArranged with care
- bedsideNear the mattress
- patient careMedical attention for sick
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
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- assistantsassistant, helper, PA, executive assistant, EA
- healthcare workersdoctor, surgeon, dentist, paramedic, pharmacist
- hospital staffdoctor, department head, surgeon, attending physician, physician
- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician
- healthcare aidesCNA, PCT, care assistant, orderly, caregiver
- pink-collar jobsreceptionist, secretary, teaching, childcare, dental hygienist
nursing aidechief of medicine
Hospital's top physician
medical director · physician · doctor · surgeon · attending physician
nursing aidepatient
Able to wait calmly
nursing home resident · hospice patient · invalid · dependent
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