CNA 10p-6am

About the Role

The primary purpose of this position is to provide each assigned resident with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the resident's assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by supervisors.

Responsibilities

• Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary.
• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
• Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.
• Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.
• Report all accidents and incidents observed on the shift.
• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access the facility's information system.
• Perform only those nursing care procedures that you have been trained to do.
• Ensure that the resident's room is ready for receiving the resident (e.g., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available).
• Greet residents and escort them to their room.
• Introduce the resident to his/her roommate, if any, and to other residents and personnel as appropriate.
• Make the resident comfortable.
• Inventory and mark the resident's personal possessions as instructed.
• Store resident's clothing.
• Assist residents with packing personal possessions when being transferred to a new room or discharged.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
• Assist with loading/unloading residents to/from vehicles as necessary.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, and a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with shift nursing personnel on a regularly scheduled basis to identify and correct problem areas and improve services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Make beds as instructed and put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Measure and record temperatures, pulses, and respirations (TPRs) of residents, as instructed.
• Weigh and measure residents as instructed.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Answer resident calls promptly.
• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (e.g., informing a resident with sight problems of foods on the tray, location, temperature).
• Record the resident's food/fluid intake.
• Report changes in the resident's eating habits to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Keep residents' water pitchers clean, filled with fresh water each shift, and within