CNA – Long Term Care

Position Summary

Current Openings: 1 Full-Time Day (36 hours per week) position.

Essential Functions

• Assist assigned patients’/residents with delegated daily care needs and daily activities according to established procedures.
• Avoids physical or coaching assistance with dressing and undressing, bathing, eating, and ambulating.
• Avoids consideration for the patients’/residents’ choices, privacy, dignity, and independence.
• Avoids contributing to the patient/resident care planning process.
• Avoids performing, or assisting the patients/residents in performing specific medical care activities according to the established procedures.
• Avoids ensuring clothing is clean and properly marked, serving and collecting food trays, encouraging and/or assisting with feeding, answering call-lights, transporting patients/residents, assisting with admission and orientation of patients/residents to the facility environment.
• Avoids assuring all patient/resident care is carried out safely and in a sanitary fashion, while maintaining a safe environment at all times.
• Avoids performing, or assisting the patients/residents in performing rehabilitative exercises, providing assistance with toileting, collecting specimens, taking vital signs and weights, shutting off oxygen if transportation is required, accurately recording findings, and providing feedback to the staff nurse on the observed patient/resident condition.
• Avoids recording all patient/resident data on the proper forms accurately and efficiently in a concise, legible manner using the format designated by departmental protocols or appropriately in the electronic medical record.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Education and Experience Required

• High School diploma or GED
• Certified Nursing Assistant course that is at least 75 hours in length, or if not certified, will attend a Certified Nursing Assistant class and take the exam within four months from the date of hire.
• BLS for Healthcare Provider

Skills and Abilities Required

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole number, common fractions, and decimals.
• Understand the basic metric system.
• Competency in basic computer skills and willingness to learn electronic applications.
• Work with confused or combative patients/residents.
• Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, memos, and correspondence.
• Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Speak and document clearly and concisely.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with members of the Health Care Team.
• Solve practical problems and work under the direction of the licensed nursing staff.

Physical Demands/Requirements

• Regularly lifting or moving objects weighing 10 to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, walking, standing, and working with equipment.
• Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
• The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.

Tuition Reimbursement

The Powell Valley Care Center is now offering to reimburse the course costs for CNAs upon certification with at least a one-year commitment of employment as a Care Center CNA.