What action demonstrates a nursing assistant's contribution to care planning?

What action demonstrates a nursing assistant's contribution to care planning?

• A. Writing medication orders
• B. Sharing her observations of residents
• C. Diagnosing medical conditions
• D. Scheduling physician rounds

Answer: (B)

Care plans are living documents that reflect each resident’s current needs and goals. Nursing assistants gather daily information through direct care—such as changes in pain, mobility, appetite, skin, mood, or safety concerns—and share these observations with the care team. This input is essential for updating goals, adjusting interventions, and tailoring responses, helping the plan stay accurate, individualized, and safe. Other actions listed don’t fit the nursing assistant role: prescribing or changing medications is done by licensed clinicians, diagnosing conditions isn’t within an aide’s scope, and scheduling physician rounds is a coordination task rather than a care-planning contribution.

Care plans are living documents that reflect each resident’s current needs and goals. Nursing assistants gather daily information through direct care—such as changes in pain, mobility, appetite, skin, mood, or safety concerns—and share these observations with the care team. This input is essential for updating goals, adjusting interventions, and tailoring responses, helping the plan stay accurate, individualized, and safe.

Other actions listed don’t fit the nursing assistant role: prescribing or changing medications is done by licensed clinicians, diagnosing conditions isn’t within an aide’s scope, and scheduling physician rounds is a coordination task rather than a care-planning contribution.