Certified Nurse Assistant - Care Center

About the role

The Long Term Care Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.) provides direct care for Long-Term Care residents, adhering to the Care Plan and assisting each resident to achieve and maintain the highest level of health and physical condition.

Responsibilities

• Communicates effectively with residents, families, and coworkers to protect and promote each resident’s dignity, individuality, and rights.
• Affords assessments of patient’s daily needs and treatments, including obtaining and recording vital signs, height, weight, assessing need for assistance with or independence in dressing needs, bathing, eating, and ambulation.
• Participates in the care planning process as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provides or assists with daily needs and treatments, such as bathing, dressing, shaving, oral hygiene, bed making, transferring, repositioning, toileting, serving and collecting food trays, encouraging and/or assisting with feeding, answering call lights, ensuring a clean environment, transporting patients, assisting with ambulation, and orienting/reorientating patients to the facility environment to ensure patient safety.
• Performs or assists with specific medical care activities, including assisting with restorative exercises, collecting specimens, administering enemas, bowel and bladder training, assessing and documenting completed cares, intake and output, baths, dietary intake/calorie counts on flow sheets, while providing important feedback to nursing staff immediately on status or changes in patient conditions, pain management, and other important concerns.
• Carries out safety and infection control procedures to ensure a safe, clean environment for patients and staff, including understanding and following established policies and procedures related to fire, tornado, evacuation, disaster plan, universal precautions, infection control procedures, hazardous and chemical communication program.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the strategic and operational plans of the facility and actively supports these on a daily basis, as well as supporting all facility functions.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Completion of 75 hour C.N.A. course preferred.
• Prior related work experience preferred.
• Attends 12 hours of in-service training yearly.

Qualifications

• Certified as a Nursing Assistant in the State of Iowa required.
• CPR certification preferred.