Certified Nursing Assistant
WCA: Wisconsin Counties Association · Clark, SD · 3 days ago
Full-time
About the Role
A Certified Nursing Assistant provides non-professional nursing care and related services to meet the personal and emotional needs and comfort of residents, and assists with activities of daily living according to individualized plans of care or program plans.
Responsibilities
- Performs total cares, assists or supervises resident activities in daily living, including bathing, grooming, dressing, and oral hygiene.
- Follows care plan on master Kardex and makes suggestions to Registered Nurse regarding any changes in resident status.
- Assists residents at meal times according to therapeutic dietary programs; serves and removes meal trays; serves between-meal snacks; prepares and serves unscheduled nourishments; records fluids and food intake.
- Reports and records observations of residents' physical and emotional condition within nursing assistant guidelines; charts level of care required by each resident regarding toileting, activities of daily living, feeding, restraints, etc.; reports faulty equipment.
- Recognizes and reports resident abuse, neglect, and/or misappropriation of funds.
- Participates in providing rehabilitation nursing care or active treatment as specified by the resident care plan; provides assistance with physical therapy, occupational therapy, and activities programs.
- Transports residents using wheelchairs, sit-to-stand lifts, Hoyer lifts, and two- or three-person lifts, transfer belts, etc., or provides assistance with ambulation.
- Responds to resident call lights, wander alarms, and motion alarms.
- Follows universal precautions.