Here’s a FREE printable CNA Skills Checklist you can use to study and practice. I’ll format it so you can easily print it and check items off as you master them:

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📝 CNA Skills Checklist

✅ Always Required Skills

• Handwashing (before and after each skill)

• Indirect care (introduce self, explain procedure, ensure safety, privacy, comfort)

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🧼 Infection Control & Safety

• Proper use of gloves and PPE

• Disposing of soiled linens/materials safely

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🛏 Basic Patient Care

• Making an occupied bed

• Positioning patient:

  • Side-lying

  • Supine

  • Fowler’s position

• Transferring patient with gait belt (bed → wheelchair)

• Ambulating patient with gait belt

• Performing range of motion (ROM) exercises

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🩺 Vital Signs

• Measure blood pressure (manual cuff)

• Measure pulse (radial)

• Measure respirations

• Measure temperature (oral, axillary, electronic)

• Measure weight

• Measure height

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🍽 Feeding & Hydration

• Assist with feeding (upright position, prevent choking)

• Record food/fluid intake accurately

• Offer water

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🚽 Elimination Needs

• Assist with bedpan/urinal

• Provide perineal care (peri-care)

• Catheter care (cleaning area, emptying bag, recording output)

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🧑‍🦳 Personal Hygiene & Grooming

• Oral care (conscious patient)

• Oral care (unconscious patient)

• Denture care

• Partial bed bath (face, arms, hands, chest)

• Hand and nail care

• Hair care (brushing/combing)

• Shaving with electric razor

• Dressing a patient (weak or affected limb)

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📝 Observation & Communication

• Report and record changes in condition

• Communicate clearly with patient and healthcare team

• Respect patient dignity and privacy at all times

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👉 How to use this checklist:

• Print it and keep it with your study materials.

• Practice each skill step-by-step (preferably with a classmate, friend, or family member).

• Check off each box once you can perform the skill correctly and confidently.