Nursing Assistants help nurses in nearly every aspect of nursing care in hospitals, clinics, home health, assisted living, private homes, and doctor’s offices. Providing an estimated 80% of hands-on care in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home- and community-based long-term care settings, Nursing Assistants are key to providing daily care to patients, helping with meals, baths, exercises, treatments and more. CNAs and other direct care workers form relationships with those they assist as they care for emotional and physical needs on a daily basis. Nursing Assistants are responsible for recording vital signs (pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and temperature), recording fluid intake and outputs, weights, and recording other observations. They must be familiar with normal values for vital sign measurements and observations and report normal and abnormal findings to a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.