CNA Certified Nurse Assistant

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs and ensures call lights are within reach of resident.
• Safeguards residents who are unable to call for help by checking them frequently.
• Provides direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Explains procedures to residents and assists them with their activities of daily living.
• Aids residents with bowel and bladder functions, prepares them for appointments, activities, and social programs, and assists with mobility needs.
• Lifts, positions, and transports residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., ensuring safety.
• Dresses residents appropriately to the current weather and notifies the supervisor if they need clothing.
• Changes bed linens and handles them according to infection control guidelines.
• Feeds residents requiring help and records meal intake.
• Delivers and documents all snacks and supplements, offers fluids to residents frequently to ensure hydration, and reviews and implements daily nursing needs.
• Takes and records temperatures, blood pressure, pulse rates, respiration rates, height, weight, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Maintains cleanliness of residents' units, central bathing areas, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms, and linen closets.
• Participates in and receives nursing reports, reports any changes in residents' conditions to supervisors, and performs post-mortem care as instructed.
• Accurately records all care as directed and participates in and attends periodic in-services and staff meetings.

Education / Requirements

• Ability to communicate effectively with residents and nursing staff.
• Proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing English.
• Prior experience as a LTC nursing assistant preferred; alternatively, equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Completion of a State Approved Nursing Assistant Training and Competency Evaluation Program.
• Good standing in the state registry is required.