CNA

Job Summary

As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will be a cornerstone of patient care, directly contributing to comfort, safety, and recovery by providing essential support under RN direction. Every day, you will deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and actively contribute to the patient's plan of care as a vital member of our interdisciplinary team, upholding the highest standards of conduct and patient well-being.

Responsibilities

• Delivers compassionate basic care, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care and bowel/bladder elimination.
• Provides additional care as required to meet the personal primary needs and comfort of assigned patients based on skill, ability, limitations of scope of practice and patient acuity.
• Prepares patient, equipment and supplies for specific procedures/examinations.
• Performs, monitors, reports and documents all clinical activities within scope of practice.
• Observes and reports changes in patient condition to the RN.
• Obtains labels and transports a variety of samples (e.g. urine, stool, sputum specimens and blood products).
• Provides patient information to nursing staff for inclusion in the interdisciplinary plan of care; documents relevant patient data in accordance with work unit standards.
• Aids nursing staff in the admission, discharge and transfer of patients by performing activities such as inventory/storing patient belongings, providing patient with relevant personal care/comfort items, orienting patient/family and transporting patient to room or other location using wheelchairs, stretchers or patient bed.
• Maintains a neat and organized work environment.
• Orders, stocks and replenishes supplies and equipment as necessary, identifies and reports problems with supplies or equipment; enters equipment repair request in system, tags equipment and removes from service.
• Maintains a safe work and patient environment, adhering to the hospital’s Safety, Risk Management, Regulatory Standards and infection prevention.
• Participates in quality assurance/improvement initiatives and activities as requested.
• Participates in growth opportunities.

Job Requirements

• Required Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program, upon hire or
• Military medical specialty training and, upon hire and
• Certified Nursing Assistant: WA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
• PREFERRED: Six months related work experience and Experience in a hospital setting