Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
About the role
Eden Senior Care, founded in 2016, is a growing healthcare management company focused on managing and operating skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and assisted living communities across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Alabama. The mission is to support each community’s success through strong leadership, corporate support, and resources to realize their goals. Eden Senior Care promotes employee success and values the individual experience of guests and their families.
Edenbrook of Fond Du Lac is a skilled nursing facility in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, part of the Eden Senior Care network. We are recruiting positive, happy, and reliable full-time and part-time Certified Nursing Assistants to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Provide quality care to guests in a nourishing environment.
- Deliver individualized attention to encourage each guest’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
- Carry out assignments for activities of daily living (ADLs) including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and feeding.
- Attend to individual needs regarding incontinence care, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communication, and other needs.
- Maintain each guest’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears, and other damage by changing incontinent guests, turning, repositioning immobile guests, and applying moisturizers to fragile skin.
- Perform tasks assigned by the floor nurse including checking vital signs, weighing guests, applying creams/ointments, and collecting specimens.
- Be knowledgeable of individual care plans and support the care planning process by providing supervisors with specific information and observations of guests’ needs, preferences, and reporting any behavioral changes.
- Assist the Wound Care Nurse as directed.
- Complete medical records documenting care provided and other information in accordance with nursing policies while maintaining strict confidentiality.
- Ensure established infection control and standard precaution practices are maintained when providing care.
- Follow established safety precautions when performing tasks and using equipment and supplies.
- Report all hazardous conditions, damaged equipment, and supply issues to the supervisor.
- Answer and respond to call lights promptly and courteously.
- Assist with new admissions, re-admissions, and transfer of guests to different rooms within the facility.
- Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with guests, visitors, families, peers, and supervisors.
- Attend and participate in departmental meetings and in-services as directed.
Requirements
- Certified/registered as a nursing assistant in the state of Wisconsin.
- Experienced in long-term care (preferred).
- Able to communicate well in both verbal and written forms.
- Committed to interacting professionally and with care toward residents, families, and other staff.
- Customer service oriented.
- Background as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Nursing Assistant Registered (NAR), or travel CNA contractor seeking a permanent facility with great benefits.
- Love working with people and handle everyday challenges with a positive attitude.
Benefits
Depending on employment status, candidates who join Eden Senior Care can expect competitive wages and the following benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Vacation, holiday, and sick time
- Tuition Reimbursement / Student Loan Repayment Program up to $5,250 per year
- 401(k)
- Shift differential pay
- Referral bonus
- Supportive working environment and culture
Pay & schedule
- Shift differentials: PM shift +$1.50/hr; NOC shift +$1.00/hr
- Weekend differentials: AM +$1.00/hr; PM +$3.50/hr; NOC +$2.50/hr
- Tuition reimbursement / student loan repayment up to $5,250 per year