Pay is $11/hour during training to become a CNA at Taylor County Health & Rehab.

Weekly pay

Benefits Offered:

• Paid time off with ability to cash out
• 7 paid Holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Company Paid Life and Disability
• 401(k) with match
• Referral Bonus Program

Job Description:
Full-time staff member is to acquire the knowledge, skills, and certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant by participation in the nursing center’s planned educational program consisting of classroom instructions, clinical practice, and on-the-job, supervised training, and to perform certain services for which you have been trained and found to be competent during the training period.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learn procedures and assist with admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested.

• Learn and demonstrate procedures for preparing patient room for new admission.

• Understand and utilize care plans.

• Identify the four basic food groups on a sample breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal.

• Learn to understand diet card and can identify dietary restrictions and/or special diets.

• Learn to determine and record percentage of meal consumed.

• Learn to provide assistance with meals as requested (tray delivery, feeding etc).

• Learn to provide after meal care (remove tray, brush teeth, wash face and hands etc).

• Learn proper procedures for making an occupied bed.

• Learn proper procedures for making an unoccupied bed.

• Learn/give/demonstrate proper procedures for bed baths.

• Learn/give/demonstrate proper procedures for giving a tub bath.

• Learn/give/demonstrate proper procedures for giving a shower

• Learn/give/demonstrate proper procedures for incontinence care.

• Learn/give/demonstrate proper procedures for giving perineal care.

• Learn to dress/demonstrate proper procedures for dressing the bedfast and/or ambulatory patients.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for hair care (brushing/combing).

• Learn/shampoo/demonstrate proper procedures for hair care for the bedfast and wheelchair bound patient.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for nail care (trimming, cleaning, etc) and recognize any problems that need attention

• Learn/demonstrate proper procedures for shaving (face, legs, under arm, etc).

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for oral care.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for denture care.

• Learn/prepare patients for meal service and feed as necessary.

• Learn to identify common sites for skin breakdown.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for skin care.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures care in the prevention of skin breakdown.

• Learn/appropriately apply/demonstrate proper procedures for use of restraints in accordance with physician orders.

• Learn/release restraints and provide exercise.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for external/indwelling catheter care.

• Learn/apply/demonstrate proper procedures for catheter care appropriately (drainage bag and tubing, leg strap, etc).

• Learn to record patient intake and output as requested.

• Learn to offer fluids at appropriate times (including routine ice and water rounds).

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for bowel and bladder training/retraining.

• Learn to offer/demonstrate proper procedures for bedpan toileting as needed.

• Learn to provide/demonstrate proper procedures for colostomy care.

• Learn to take and record vital signs (temps, pulse, weight, respirations etc).

• Learn and demonstrate proper body mechanics while moving/transferring patients.

• Learn and demonstrate proper techniques for giving range of motion.

• Learn to collect/demonstrate proper procedures for collecting stool and urine samples.

• Learn and demonstrate the ability to recognize signs and symptoms of abuse and/or change in patient condition

• Learn/demonstrate proper documentation in accordance with established procedure.

• Learn/demonstrate proper documentation in accordance with established procedure.

• Greet patients upon admission and assist them as requested.

• Receive and give report on patient’s status or condition.

• Assist patients to and from activities as requested.

• Learn and demonstrate proper procedures for assisting patients with walking (with or without assistive devices).

• Learn/assist/demonstrate proper procedures for providing care for the dying patient.

• Learn/assist/demonstrate proper procedures for providing post mortem care as requested.

• Learn/provide/demonstrate proper procedures for providing routine care for the bedfast patient (turning etc).

• Participate in Nursing Center surveys (Licensure / JCAHO) and any subsequently required reports.

• Attend and participate in continuing educational programs to keep abreast on changes in your field as well as to maintain current license/certification, as required.

• Attend and participate in mandatory in-services.

• Honor patient’s rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property and civil rights, including the right to wage complaints.

• Comply with Corporate Compliance Program.

• Report job-related functions/tasks that involve occupational hazards including exposure to blood and body fluids and others as necessary.

• Follow established safety regulations, to include fire protection/prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, etc.

• Follow established safety procedures when performing job tasks and/or working with equipment.

• Perform other related duties as necessary and as directed by supervisor.

• Comply with all Privacy and Security programs.

• Promotes the image and reputation of the System by exhibiting servant leadership and providing direct and open lines of communication.

• Contributes to the work of committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative efforts of the System.

• Performs other duties as necessary to ensure the success of the System.