Weekend Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

About the role

Here at Beaver Dam Health Care Center, we rely on and trust our CNA to perform direct patient care and create a compassionate environment. In this role, the core of your care will be ensuring that all of our customers are treated with dignity and respect. You will empower our patients, recognizing their ability to make their own choices while guiding them with kindness and understanding through challenging times.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized attention which encourages each resident’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well being.
• Knowable of the individualized care plan for residents and provide support to the resident according to the care plan.
• Contribute to the care planning process by providing the charge nurse or other care planning staff with specific information and observations of the residents’ needs and preferences.
• Attend to the individual needs of residents which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements, and scope of practice.
• Maintain the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in the delivery of services to them.
• Interact with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment.
• Fully understand all aspects of residents’ rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse.
• Responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents’ rights.
• Assist in maintaining a safe, neat, and clean environment; report environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems.
• Protect the personal belongings of each resident including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing, memorabilia, etc. Promptly report missing items according to established policy and participate in efforts to locate missing items.
• Observe residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly report these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Provide care that maintains each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears, and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning, repositioning immobile residents, and applying moisturizers to fragile skin, etc.
• Answer residents' call bells promptly and courteously.
• Perform various tasks assigned by the charge nurse including vital signs, residents’ weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
• Aid in orienting residents and their families to the nursing home upon admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
• Lift, move, and transport residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
• Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with the resident, visitors, families, peers, and supervisors.
• Aid in assisting residents for appointments such as beauty shop, activities, church services, etc.
• Participate in activities and functions as directed.
• Complete certified nursing assistant records documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies.
• Respond to inquiries relating to his/her particular area or to requests from residents, visitors, other personnel, etc., within given time frames and within established policy.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent; successful completion of a state-approved Nursing Assistant Certification course or other education which meets state certification requirements.
• Must hold current Nursing Assistant Certifications in the state in which he/she is practicing or be eligible to obtain.
• Must possess good organizational and time management skills.
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
• Must possess the ability to maintain composure and interact courteously and professionally.
• Must be knowledgeable of resident rights and ensures an atmosphere which allows for the privacy, dignity and well-being of all residents in a safe, secure environment.