Home Health CNA- East Valley

About the Role

The Certified Nursing Assistant provides personal care and services to terminally ill patients, supporting family members under the direction and supervision of a Nurse or Nurse Supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Helps the patient maintain good personal hygiene.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Plans and prepares nutritious meals and performs grocery shopping as instructed by the nurse.
• Assists in feeding the patient when needed.
• Assists in measuring and preparing special diets as ordered by the physician and taught by the nurse.
• Assists the patient in ambulation and with the use of a walker or wheelchair.
• Assists with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and taught by the nurse, including:
  • Assisting with colostomy bag changes.
  • Reinforcing dressings.
  • Assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar.
  • Performing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone, or albumen.
  • Measuring intake and output.
  • Assisting with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
• Assists with prescribed range of motion exercises taught by the nurse or physical therapist.
• Encourages the patient to become as independent as possible according to the interdisciplinary care plan.
• Promotes the patient's mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.
• Provides simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and household members.
• Reports any changes in the patient's mental or physical condition or home situation to the nurse and interdisciplinary team.
• Teaches basic care to the primary caregiver.
• Practices infection control measures per OSHA standards.
• Reads and records temperature, pulse, and respiration.
• Keeps accurate records of patient's health care activities on interdisciplinary charts.
• Evaluates patient/family needs and assists in preparing and executing the interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Completes a minimum of 12 hours of in-services per year.
• Participates in at least one Quality Improvement activity yearly.

Limitations

The Home Health Aide may not perform the following:

• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (such as an enema).
• Irrigate a colostomy or wound.
• Perform gastric lavage or gavage.
• Catheterize a patient.
• Administer medications except those that are self-administered.
• Apply heat by any method.
• Care for a tracheotomy tube.
• Suction a patient.
• Perform any personal health service not included in the patient care plan by the Nurse.

Direction Received

Reports directly to the Sunrise Health Services Nurse and/or Nurse Supervisor. Receives clinical direction from the patient's primary nurse.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Proof of state certification, if applicable.
• One-year direct patient care experience in an institutional setting.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel per job requirements.
• Telephone available in home.