Patient Safety Tech (CNA) (Night Shift)

About the Role

The Patient Safety Tech (CNA), working under the supervision and guidance of professional nursing staff, provides ongoing monitoring of the patient to assist the health care team in maintaining a safe and comfortable environment.

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, including:
• General hygiene (bath, shower, grooming, oral care)
• Assistance with elimination (urinals, bedpans, bowel and/or bladder programs)
• Transfers and ambulation of patients
• Post-mortem care assistance
• Assistance with meals, including feeding patients
• Assistance in turn, cough, and deep breathing routines
• Assistance in activities of daily living
• Assistance in admission, transfer, and discharge of patients
• Making occupied and unoccupied beds
• Maintaining records of fluid intake and output
• Completing calorie counts and other nutrition information as delegated
• Providing measures of comfort and convenience (water, blankets, etc.)
• Performs technical procedures as delegated and after observation by the RN/LPN according to unit policy, including:
• Taking and recording patient’s vital signs
• Taking and recording height and weight
• Applying dressings, compresses, bandages, and preoperative skin preps
• Applying heat and cold
• Sits in the patient’s room with an unobstructed view to observe the patient and maintain a safe environment.
• Provides nourishments and water, prepares patients for meals by assisting with tray setup.
• Accompanies and remains with patients 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 the patient as directed by RN/Nursing Supervisor.
• Reports any unusual changes in the patient’s condition or behavior to the patient’s primary nurse or team leader/PCC.
• Transports records, equipment, and supplies to and from the 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.
• Assists with stocking supplies/inventory.
• Adheres to established department policies and procedures and maintains compliance, performance improvement, safety, environmental, and infection control programs.

Physical Demands

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Standing: Frequently
• Walking: Frequently
• Sitting: Occasionally
• Lifting: Occasionally
• Carrying: Occasionally
• Pushing: Occasionally
• Pulling: Occasionally
• Climbing: Rarely
• Balancing: Rarely
• Stooping: Occasionally
• Kneeling: Occasionally
• Crouching: Occasionally
• Crawling: Rarely
• Reaching: Frequently
• Handling: Frequently
• Grasping: Frequently
• Feeling: Frequently
• Talking: Constantly
• Hearing: Constantly
• Repetitive Motions: Frequently
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently