Certified Nursing Assistance (CNA)

About the role

Watertown Health Care Center is a skilled nursing home facility that takes pride in providing our residents with an amazing experience. We have an incredible tight-knit family of caregivers that serves our residents every day with compassion, care, and a positive attitude. We value and work hard to appreciate our caregivers because we recognize they are the foundation of our organization.

We are looking for a dedicated Certified Nursing Assistant to join our team. In this role, you will perform direct patient care and create a compassionate environment. You will empower our patients, recognizing their ability to make their own choices while guiding them with kindness and understanding through challenging times.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality nursing care to residents in an environment that promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and individuality.
• Provide individualized attention that encourages each resident's ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
• Contribute to the care planning process by providing the charge nurse or other care planning staff with specific information and observations of the residents' needs and preferences.
• Attend to the individual needs of residents, including assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, or other needs.
• Maintain the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in the delivery of services to them.
• Interact with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment.
• Fully understand all aspects of residents' rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse.
• Responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents' rights.
• Assist in maintaining a safe, neat, and clean environment; report environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse.
• Protect the personal belongings of each resident, including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing, memorabilia, etc.
• Promptly report missing items according to established policy and participate in efforts to locate missing items.
• Observe residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly report these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Provide care that maintains each resident's skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears, and other damage.
• Answer residents' call bells promptly and courteously.
• Perform various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including vital signs, residents' weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
• Assist with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home upon admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
• Lift, move, and transport residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
• Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with the resident, visitors, families, peers, and supervisors.
• Assist and escort residents for appointments such as beauty shop, activities, church services, etc.
• Participate in activities and functions as directed.
• Practice careful, efficient, and no-wasteful use of supplies and linen and follow established charge procedures for resident charge items.
• Complete certified nursing assistant records documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies.
• Perform all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent; successful completion of a state-approved Nursing Assistant Certification course or other education which meets state certification requirements.
• Must hold current Nursing Assistant Certifications in the state in which he/she is practicing or be eligible to obtain.
• Must possess good organizational and time management skills.
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
• Must possess the ability to maintain composure and interact courteously and professionally.
• Must be knowledgeable of resident rights and ensures an atmosphere which allows for the privacy, dignity, and well-being of all residents in a safe, secure environment.

Benefits

Competitive wages and a growing team committed to success. We offer AM, PM, and NOC shifts, as well as opportunities for stability and longevity in your career.