CNA PRN

About the role

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

Essential Duties

• 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 you observe on the shift that they occur.
• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access 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 (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
• Greet residents and escort them to their room.
• Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
• Make resident comfortable.
• Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed.
• Store resident’s clothing.
• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being 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 and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of 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.
• Makes beds as instructed.
• Puts extra covers on beds as requested.
• Makes temperature, pulse, and respiration (TPR) measurements of residents, as instructed.
• Weighs and measures residents as instructed.
• Ensures that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Answers resident calls promptly.
• Checks residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
• Aids residents with food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).
• Records the resident’s food/fluid intake.
• Reports changes in the resident’s eating habits to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Keeps residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
• Performs after meal care (i.e., removes trays, cleans resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.).
• Participates in and receives the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Performs all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follows work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperates with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Notifies the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Reports occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.
• Aids residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary).
• Keeps residents dry (changes gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Aids residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Aids with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Performs restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Aids in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
• Checks each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
• Observes and reports the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
• Reports injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Observes disoriented and comatose residents.
• Records and reports data as instructed.
• Performs special treatments as instructed.
• Immediately notifies the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility.
• Uses only the equipment you have been trained to use.
• Reports defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Maintains the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information.
• Reports known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information.
• Reports all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
• Honors the resident’s refusal of treatment request.
• Reports such requests to your supervisor.

Qualifications

• Must possess, as a minimum, an 10th grade education.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Certified Nursing Assistant license in accordance with laws of the state.
• CPR preferred.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
• Frequent use of all office related equipment to include copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Additional Information

• Note: Nothing in this job specification restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
• Critical features of this job are described under various headings above.
• They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

Summary of Benefits

• We are proud to offer our staff low monthly premium payments for employees and dependents will be as follows:
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off for vacation accruing at 4 hours a month, 48 FT or 40 PT annually recurring sick day hours prorated based on hire date, and 7 paid Holidays each year.

EEO/M/F/VETS/DISABLED

• At Sullivan Park Care Center, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values Excellence, Trust, Accountability, Mutual Respect, and Love, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different.