Purpose of Your Job Position

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide each patient with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the patient's assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors.

Delegation of Authority

As a Certified Nursing Assistant, you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties.

Job Functions

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Duties and Responsibilities

Administrative Functions

• Record all entries are informative and descriptive manner.
• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
• Report all changes in the patients to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.
• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.

Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Functions

• Ensure that the patients’ room is ready for receiving the patient (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
• Greet patient and escort them to their room.

Personnel Functions

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor.

Personal Nursing Care Functions

• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Assist patients with daily dental and mouth care (i.e., brushing teeth/dentures, oral hygiene, special mouth care, etc.).
• Assist patients with bath functions (i.e., bed bath, tub or shower bath, etc.) as directed.
• Assist patients with ADLs necessary.
• Keep patients dry (i.e., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Change bed linens, make beds. Keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the patients.
• Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
• Assist patients in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Assist patients in preparing for activity and social programs (i.e., church services, parties, visitors, etc.).
• Assist in transporting patients to/from appointments, activity and social programs, etc., as necessary.
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting patients into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts etc.
• Assist patients to walk with or without self-help devices as instructed.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Change dressings, bandages, binders, etc., as instructed.
• Weigh and measure patients as instructed.
• Measure and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations (TPRs) as instructed.
• Answer calls promptly.
• Ensure that patients who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Check each patients routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.