Nurse Aide in Training - Non-Certified

About the role

The Nurse Aide in Training provides routine daily nursing care to assigned patients under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse. This role aims to ensure patient safety and promote the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each patient in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and Life Care standards.

Responsibilities

• Lift, turn, move, position, and transport patients under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse
• Accurately document and chart patient care
• Respond to call lights promptly
• Exhibit excellent customer service and a positive attitude towards patients
• Absorb and implement nursing practices and procedures as well as the laws, regulations, and guidelines governing nursing functions in the post-acute care facility
• Participate in the evacuation of patients
• Demonstrate dependable, regular attendance
• Concentrate and use reasoning skills and good judgment
• Communicate and function productively on an interdisciplinary team
• Sit, stand, bend, lift, push, pull, stoop, walk, reach, and move intermittently during working hours

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Currently enrolled in a State-approved CNA program and may work for a single consecutive period of four (4) months
• At the conclusion of the four (4) month period, the Nurse Aide in Training must meet the certification requirements to become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
• CPR certification upon hire or obtain during orientation
• CPR certification must remain current during employment

Qualifications

• Patience, tact, cheerful disposition, and enthusiasm as well as willingness to handle difficult patients
• Knowledgeable of nursing practices and procedures as well as the laws, regulations, and guidelines governing nursing functions in the post-acute care facility
• Maintain professional working relationships with all associates, vendors, etc.
• Maintain confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information
• Understand and follow company policies including harassment and compliance procedures
• Display integrity and professionalism by adhering to Life Care's Code of Conduct and completing mandatory Code of Conduct and other appropriate compliance training

Skills

• Excellent customer service and a positive attitude towards patients
• Dependable, regular attendance
• Reasoning skills and good judgment
• Interdisciplinary teamwork
• Physical abilities to lift, move, and transport patients

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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