Certified Nursing Assistant I, Full Time, Evenings, Fox Nursing Home

About the role

The best thing about this role is the opportunity to make a difference by improving the health of our patients. We have an innovative culture focused on patient care and community health.

Responsibilities

• Performs resident care activities and services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comfort of residents.
• Nurse aides provide assigned residents with routine daily nursing care in accordance with established nursing care procedures.
• Observes and reports resident’s status changes and needs.
• Answers call lights and alarms and attends to/reports resident’s needs.
• Obtains weights, vital signs and reports results.
• Prioritizes and organizes work within specified time frames.
• Completes Intake/Output monitoring as appropriate.
• Obtains specimens and prepares them to be transported to the lab as needed.
• Provides/assists residents with ADL’s, including bathing, skin care, toileting, grooming, and dressing while encouraging the resident to participate at highest practicable level, and documents care provided accurately and timely.
• Affords assistance with feeding residents with meals and supplements.
• Affords assistance with elimination needs, and/or provides incontinent care with each occurrence.
• Maintains clients in a transferred, moved, and repositioned state every 2-3 hours and per physician order.
• Affords assistance to residents to move to activities area or dining room area, etc.
• Affords assistance with admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Affords assistance/provides residents with PROM and AROM, and ambulation goals as appropriate.
• Operates all equipment and performs all procedures/care in a safe manner.
• Demonstrates proper body mechanics in all functions.
• Cleans and stocks supplies, and equipment as directed.
• Receives and directs phone calls promptly and accurately following Hospital etiquette guidelines.
• Demonstrates ability to accept constructive criticism and uses it to improve work performance.
• Demonstrates the skills and judgment necessary to provide non-direct patient care/support services to staff under the direction of licensed personnel.
• Maintains NYS CNA requirements.
• Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/unit team inter and intra departmentally to facilitate the department's/unit's ability to meet its goals and objectives.
• Assumes all other duties and responsibilities as necessary.
• Completes work assignments on time/readily accepts assignments as observed by Director.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED, preferred.
• Minimum one-year long-term care experience, preferred.
• NYS Certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant, required.

Skills

• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Clinical Skills
• Communication
• Interacting with People
• Multi-Tasking
• Responsibility
• Time Management

Physical Requirements

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 lbs. for force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force constantly to move objects.
• Frequent grasping, hearing, lifting, pulling, pushing, repetitive motion, reaching, standing, talking, walking, visual acuity (color/depth/perception).
• Frequent bodily fluids/bloodborne exposure.

Hazards

• Bodily fluids/bloodborne exposure.

Total Rewards

• Paid time off, including company holidays, vacation, and sick time.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and disability protection.
• Retail benefits including an employer match.

Pay Range

USD $19.12/Hr. - USD $28.68/Hr.