CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT

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Job Summary:

The Certified Nurse Assistant is responsible for providing personal care to the patients under the supervision of the Charge Nurse.  Personal care includes assistance with meals, dressing, movement, and bathing.  The CNA follows established facility policies and procedures while providing care and coordinates patient care with other facility personnel and families.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1. Provides or assists in bathing, grooming, toileting, and/or showering, while ensuring privacy and safety and encouraging independence.
2. Makes beds, straightens rooms, and keeps patient care areas in an organized and clean manner, ensuring the entire nursing floor is kept orderly and demonstrating pride in the facility.
3. Respects patient’s rights by knocking on doors before entering, addressing patients by name with the appropriate title, allowing/encouraging patients to make their own decisions when appropriate
4. Provides safe patient transfers involving bed, wheelchair, and/or shower chair, uses the gait belt, walker, or mechanical lift with all transfers. Protects patients from complications and injuries
5. Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration as required.
6. Sets up meal trays and assists with feeding when necessary. Assesses for choking and responds appropriately.
7. Ensures patients and equipment are clean after meals, including hands, and removes adult clothing protectors.
8. Accurately documents care given to patients including the documentation of reportable problems (ADL sheets, meal percentages, I&O, skin breakdown etc)
9. Reports changes in patient condition to the supervising nurse and/or Director of Nurses immediately (changes in skin conditions, urinary changes etc.).
10. Demonstrates flexibility with changing work demands.
11. Reports to the Charge Nurse equipment and supply needs, repair/maintenance needs, safety hazards and unusual occurrences or observations.
12. Assists the nursing department and other departments as required in other duties.
13. Provides appropriate interventions for patients per care plan, utilizes distraction and validation techniques as appropriate and encourages patient independence.
14. Assists patients to and from activities of choice and encourages the patient to participate in activities.

Job Specifications:

 Education Requirements:

1. High School Graduate or equivalent preferred.
2. Graduate of a Certified Nurses Aide Course or currently enrolled in approved CNA training with intent to complete course in specified time frame of offered course with successful completion of competency evaluation.

Hours: 32 hours per week, every other weekend – Location: Memorial Hospital – Med/Surg. dept.