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Nursing Assistants
Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
What a nursing assistant does
Become a nursing assistant
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good nursing assistant
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Understanding people's reactions.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $20 per hour with an average salary of $42,400 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $18 and $22 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $37,700 and $46,000 per year.
Nursing Assistant job outlook
- There are 28,272 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 5,549 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.