Nursing Assistant, Certified, Long Term Care (LTC), Float
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We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from job summary, responsibilities, qualifications, pay.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, accommodation, drug free workplace, etc. Also remove Job ID/Req number etc. Remove navigation etc.
Let's extract content.
Job Summary paragraph: "The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care. Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN). Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan. Considered a member of the nursing team and is expected to know, and will be held accountable for, following infection prevention and control policies and Personal Protective Equipment use. Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities that may include, but are not limited to, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care to assigned resident. Assists the resident in transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment and also provides range of motion and passive exercises. Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, while creating a positive dining experience for the resident. Assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate. The NA aids providers and nursing staff members with procedures, if needed. Documents resident interactions as needed and the outcomes related to resident care, behavior, activity, and dietary. Communicates resident's changing condition and care related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages residents to participate. May participate in departmental/organization committees and task forces as needed."
That's the job summary; we can put under About the role.
Responsibilities: Actually the job summary already includes many responsibilities. But we could treat the job summary as About the role, and then Responsibilities could be a list of duties extracted from that paragraph. However we must not duplicate content. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we put the same content in both About the role and Responsibilities, that's duplication. Better to have About the role as a brief overview (maybe the first sentence) and Responsibilities as list. But we must not lose detail. Could split: About the role: short paragraph summarizing role (maybe first two sentences). Responsibilities: detailed list. However we risk losing some detail if we omit. But we can keep all detail in Responsibilities list and have About the role as a brief summary (maybe not required). The rule: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have just About the role (with the full paragraph) and Responsibilities omitted if it's just same. But we need to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay. Let's see if we can have About the role as a short summary (maybe first two sentences) and Responsibilities as detailed list. That would preserve all detail because the list includes all details. The About the role summary would be a subset, but that's okay as it's not duplicating all detail; we still have all detail in Responsibilities. That seems acceptable.
Let's craft About the role: "The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care, providing resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance under RN supervision." That's a summary.
Responsibilities: list each duty from the job summary. We'll break into bullet points.
List items:
- Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN).
- Delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan.
- Follows infection prevention and control policies and proper use of Personal Protective Equipment.
- Assists with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care.
- Assists residents with transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises.
- Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience; assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate.
- Aids providers and nursing staff with procedures as needed.
- Documents resident interactions and outcomes related to care, behavior, activity, and dietary.
- Communicates resident's changing condition and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse.
- Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs.
- Provides housekeeping and laundry services to help residents keep living areas clean and operational.
- Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs, encouraging resident participation.
- May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed.
That covers all.
Qualifications: list:
- High school graduate or GED preferred, but not required.
- Minimum age of 18 years.
- Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.
- Required Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing, or state-certified CNA within four months of date into the position by being enrolled in a training program or in the process of obtaining certification through endorsement.
- CNA training and certification required and provided by facility.
- (Colorado-specific) Depending on facility, Qualified Medication Administration Person (QMAP) certification with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment required.
- Satisfactorily completes yearly department-specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits; minimum of 12 hours continuing education required annually.
- Maintains all department-specific required certifications.
- When applicable, for applicable states, certified and registered with the Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) Registry.
- Dependent on facility and required responsibilities, this role may classify as a Sanford Category II Driver requiring a motor vehicle report and proof of valid driver’s license; must be medically qualified to perform essential driving functions per Sanford Driving Policy.
- (We could also include that Good Samaritan is an EEO/AA employer etc but that's boilerplate to remove.)
We must not include EEO etc.
Pay: Salary Range: $17.00 - $25.50.
We should not include Schedule because it's vague.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care, providing resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance under RN supervision.
Responsibilities
- Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN).
- Delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan.
- Follows infection prevention and control policies and proper use of Personal Protective Equipment.
- Assists with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care.
- Assists residents with transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises.
- Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience; assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate.
- Aids providers and nursing staff with procedures as needed.
- Documents resident interactions and outcomes related to care, behavior, activity, and dietary.
- Communicates resident's changing condition and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse.
- Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs.
- Provides housekeeping and laundry services to help residents keep living areas clean and operational.
- Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs, encouraging resident participation.
- May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed.
Qualifications
- High school graduate or GED preferred, but not required.
- Minimum age of 18 years.
- Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.
- Required Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing, or state-certified CNA within four months of date into the position by being enrolled in a training program or in the process of obtaining certification through endorsement.
- CNA training and certification required and provided by facility.
- Depending on facility, Qualified Medication Administration Person (QMAP) certification with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment required (Colorado-specific).
- Satisfactorily completes yearly department-specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits; minimum of 12 hours continuing education required annually.
- Maintains all department-specific required certifications.
- When applicable, for applicable states, certified and registered with the Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) Registry.
- Dependent on facility and required responsibilities, this role may classify as a Sanford Category II Driver requiring a motor vehicle report and proof of valid driver’s license; must be medically qualified to perform essential driving functions per Sanford Driving Policy.
Pay
Salary range: $17.00 - $25.50 per hour.
Check: Did we lose any detail? The job summary also mentioned "Know
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from job summary, responsibilities, qualifications, pay. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, accommodation, drug free workplace, etc. Also remove Job ID/Req number etc. Remove navigation etc. Let's extract content. Job Summary paragraph: "The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care. Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN). Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan. Considered a member of the nursing team and is expected to know, and will be held accountable for, following infection prevention and control policies and Personal Protective Equipment use. Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities that may include, but are not limited to, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care to assigned resident. Assists the resident in transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment and also provides range of motion and passive exercises. Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, while creating a positive dining experience for the resident. Assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate. The NA aids providers and nursing staff members with procedures, if needed. Documents resident interactions as needed and the outcomes related to resident care, behavior, activity, and dietary. Communicates resident's changing condition and care related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages residents to participate. May participate in departmental/organization committees and task forces as needed." That's the job summary; we can put under About the role. Responsibilities: Actually the job summary already includes many responsibilities. But we could treat the job summary as About the role, and then Responsibilities could be a list of duties extracted from that paragraph. However we must not duplicate content. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we put the same content in both About the role and Responsibilities, that's duplication. Better to have About the role as a brief overview (maybe the first sentence) and Responsibilities as list. But we must not lose detail. Could split: About the role: short paragraph summarizing role (maybe first two sentences). Responsibilities: detailed list. However we risk losing some detail if we omit. But we can keep all detail in Responsibilities list and have About the role as a brief summary (maybe not required). The rule: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have just About the role (with the full paragraph) and Responsibilities omitted if it's just same. But we need to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay. Let's see if we can have About the role as a short summary (maybe first two sentences) and Responsibilities as detailed list. That would preserve all detail because the list includes all details. The About the role summary would be a subset, but that's okay as it's not duplicating all detail; we still have all detail in Responsibilities. That seems acceptable. Let's craft About the role: "The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care, providing resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance under RN supervision." That's a summary. Responsibilities: list each duty from the job summary. We'll break into bullet points. List items: - Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN). - Delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan. - Follows infection prevention and control policies and proper use of Personal Protective Equipment. - Assists with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care. - Assists residents with transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises. - Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience; assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate. - Aids providers and nursing staff with procedures as needed. - Documents resident interactions and outcomes related to care, behavior, activity, and dietary. - Communicates resident's changing condition and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. - Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. - Provides housekeeping and laundry services to help residents keep living areas clean and operational. - Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs, encouraging resident participation. - May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed. That covers all. Qualifications: list: - High school graduate or GED preferred, but not required. - Minimum age of 18 years. - Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred. - Required Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing, or state-certified CNA within four months of date into the position by being enrolled in a training program or in the process of obtaining certification through endorsement. - CNA training and certification required and provided by facility. - (Colorado-specific) Depending on facility, Qualified Medication Administration Person (QMAP) certification with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment required. - Satisfactorily completes yearly department-specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits; minimum of 12 hours continuing education required annually. - Maintains all department-specific required certifications. - When applicable, for applicable states, certified and registered with the Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) Registry. - Dependent on facility and required responsibilities, this role may classify as a Sanford Category II Driver requiring a motor vehicle report and proof of valid driver’s license; must be medically qualified to perform essential driving functions per Sanford Driving Policy. - (We could also include that Good Samaritan is an EEO/AA employer etc but that's boilerplate to remove.) We must not include EEO etc. Pay: Salary Range: $17.00 - $25.50. We should not include Schedule because it's vague. Now produce HTML:
About the role
The Nursing Assistant (NA) serves as caregiver to the resident during the scheduled work period in long term care, providing resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance under RN supervision.
Responsibilities
- Provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned resident under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN).
- Delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per care plan.
- Follows infection prevention and control policies and proper use of Personal Protective Equipment.
- Assists with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psychosocial support and other personal care.
- Assists residents with transferring, repositioning, and walking using correct transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises.
- Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience; assists residents with meals and snacks, provides water and supplements as appropriate.
- Aids providers and nursing staff with procedures as needed.
- Documents resident interactions and outcomes related to care, behavior, activity, and dietary.
- Communicates resident's changing condition and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse.
- Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs.
- Provides housekeeping and laundry services to help residents keep living areas clean and operational.
- Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs, encouraging resident participation.
- May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed.
Qualifications
- High school graduate or GED preferred, but not required.
- Minimum age of 18 years.
- Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.
- Required Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing, or state-certified CNA within four months of date into the position by being enrolled in a training program or in the process of obtaining certification through endorsement.
- CNA training and certification required and provided by facility.
- Depending on facility, Qualified Medication Administration Person (QMAP) certification with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment required (Colorado-specific).
- Satisfactorily completes yearly department-specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits; minimum of 12 hours continuing education required annually.
- Maintains all department-specific required certifications.
- When applicable, for applicable states, certified and registered with the Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) Registry.
- Dependent on facility and required responsibilities, this role may classify as a Sanford Category II Driver requiring a motor vehicle report and proof of valid driver’s license; must be medically qualified to perform essential driving functions per Sanford Driving Policy.
Pay
Salary range: $17.00 - $25.50 per hour.
Check: Did we lose any detail? The job summary also mentioned "Know