Providing specialty Emergency Medical Training
CNA II - Dementia Care
Program is currently under development
Other programs:
CNA II Acute Care
Restorative
Dementia
Instructor's Class
CNA II-Dementia Care
With the CNA II - Dementia Care license you will be able to preform the following tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
Tasks associated with person-directed care
-Adjust care to meet individual preferences and unique needs.
-Gather information on specific strengths, abilities, and preferences of a person with dementia.
Tasks associated with responsive observation
-Identify findings, patterns, habits, and behaviors that deviate from usual in a person with dementia.
-Recognize changes in persons with dementia that should be reported to the licensed nurse.
-Observe person’s response to medications and notify licensed nurse when necessary.
-Observe & collect response to pain for the person with dementia.
-Provide input to licensed nurse on person with dementia’s response to interventions for problems and care plan approaches.
Tasks associated with interpersonal skills/communication
-Utilize de-escalation strategies.
-Protect person with dementia and self in a crisis situation.
-Use communication techniques to enhance the quality of life for a person with dementia.
Tasks associated with activities of daily living (ADL)
-Utilize techniques to encourage self care for the person with dementia.
-Coordinate ADL approaches with the person with dementia’s own patterns/habits.
Tasks associated with activities
-Make meaningful moments for the person with dementia.
-Support individual preferences and habits.
Tasks associated with safety
-Identify safety risks for a person with dementia.
-Apply preventive/supportive/protective strategies or devices when working with a person with dementia.
Tasks associated with environment
-Contributing to a safe, calm, stable, home-like environment for a person with dementia.
Tasks associated with technical skills
-Data gathering skills:
-Collect clean-catch urine specimen.
-Perform tests on urine specimens.
-Empty, measure, and record output from drainage devices.
-Perform hemocult test for occult blood.
-Perform capillary blood glucose (CBGs).
-Bladder scanning.
-Designated tasks:
-Apply pediculicides.
-Turn oxygen on and off at predetermined, established flow rate.
-Change simple, non-sterile dressings using aseptic technique when no wound debridement or packing is involved.
-Clean ostomy sites and change dressings or appliances for established, non-acute ostomies.
-Apply topical over-the-counter creams and ointments for prophylactic treatment of skin conditions.
-Discontinue foley catheters.
-Perform clean intermittent straight urinary catheterization for chronic conditions.
-Insert over-the-counter vaginal suppositories and vaginal creams.
-Assist with incentive spirometer.
-Suction oral pharynx.
-Interrupt and re-establish suction (with the exception of chest tubes).
-Add fluid to established jejunostomy and gastrostomy tube feedings and change established tube feeding bags.
Tasks associated with end of life care
-Recognize symptoms for a person reaching the end-of-life.
-Provide compassionate end-of-life care.
Tasks associated with documentation
Tasks associated with caregiver self care
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