Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Day shift

Responsibilities

• Performs duties in accordance with established methods and techniques and in conformance with recognized standards
• Provides maximum customer care services within limits defined by delegated tasks
• Assumes responsibility for varied customer care duties as assigned to include assisting the nurse with the admission, discharge and transfer of customers; assist the nurse with performing customer treatments and caring for the customer's personal belongings.
• Baths the customer in bed, tub or shower, combs hair, cleans and cuts fingernails and gives shampoos
• Positions customers in correct body alignment in and out of bed and applies safety measures under the direction of the Nurse
• Affords assistance to customers in and out of bed, in walking and transports customers throughout a Center via wheelchair, Geri-chair, or stretcher; may accompany customers when transported outside the Center for appointments
• Coordinates scheduling for customers requiring O.T., P.T., S.T., to assure that they are available for the therapist on a timely basis and assists in transporting the customer to the rehab area
• Accompanies customers when transported outside Center for appointments as needed
• Accompanies customers when transported outside Center for appointments as needed
• Participates in the formulation and follow through of the customer's Nursing Care Plan
• Takes and records weights, blood pressures, temperatures, pulse and respiration in the electronic medical record
• Gives various skin care treatments
• Applies simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages, under direction of the Licensed Nurse
• Feeds customers, assists all customer with their meals and provides in between meal nourishment, as well as providing fresh ice and water to the customer's bedside
• Answers customer's call light or bell, delivers messages, administers bedpans and urinals, cleans areas of spillage or accidents caused by the customer
• Performs isolation care as needed for customer's condition
• Reports any/all changes in customer's condition, any family concerns and customer's complaints to Nurse and/or Supervisor
• Collects and bags soiled linen and delivers to dirty linen area
• Cleans and sterilizes customer equipment
• Completes record of customer's oral intake and output

  Requirements

  • A minimum of a high school education or high school equivalency diploma is preferred for this position.
  • The candidate must be able to read, write and understand the English language.
  • A Certified Nurse Aide is required to attend a minimum of 18 hours Continuing Education programs provided by the Center in order to maintain Certification.
  • A Certified Nurse Aide must have successfully completed a State approved Certified Nursing Assistant program.