Patient Safety Tech (CNA)

Key Job Responsibilities

• Receives assignments as directed in accordance with established policies and procedures including age specific patient needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills to provide care and meet patient needs in a caring, compassionate, and sensitive manner.
• Provides patient care by performing assigned tasks for patient care plan implementation.
• Delivers general hygiene such as bath, shower, grooming, oral care.
• Affords assistance with elimination via urinals, bedpans, bowel and/or bladder programs.
• Assists with transfers and ambulation of patients.
• Affords post mortem care.
• Affords assistance with meal preparation, including feeding patients.
• Affords assistance with turn, cough, and deep breathing routines.
• Affords assistance with activities of daily living.
• Affords assistance with admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
• Makes beds both occupied and unoccupied.
• Maintains record of fluid intake and output.
• Completes calorie count and other nutrition information as delegated.
• Provides measures of comfort and convenience (i.e., water, blankets, etc.).
• Performs technical procedures as delegated and after observation by the RN/LPN according to unit policy.
• Takes and records patient’s vital signs.
• Takes and records height and weight.
• Applies dressings, compresses, bandages and preoperative skin preps.
• Applies heat and cold.
• Sits in the patient’s room with an unobstructed view of the patient to observe the patient and maintain a safe environment.
• Provides nourishments and water, prepares patients for meals by assisting with tray set up.
• Accompanies and remains with patient for clinical tests or procedures off the unit.
• Provides direct patient care in accordance with patient treatment plans to meet the personal needs and comfort of patient as directed by RN/Nursing Supervisor.
• Reports any unusual changes in the patient’s condition or behavior to patient’s primary nurse or team leader/PCC.
• Transports records, equipment and supplies to and from department in a safe and timely manner.
• Interacts and communicates with members of the health care team, patients and visitors in a customer responsive and courteous manner.
• Keeps patient and nursing areas clean and orderly.
• Affords assistance with stocking supplies/inventory.

Physical Demands

• Weight: Standing, Walking, Lifting, Carrying, Pushing, Pulling, Climbing, Balancing, Stooping, Kneeling, Crouching, Crawling, Reaching, Handling, Grasping, Feeling, Talking, Hearing, Repetitive Motions, Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination