Position Summary

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) position provides quality nursing care. This includes maintaining the comfort, privacy, and dignity of residents in the delivery of services to them. The CNA interacts with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment to ensure the highest quality of living.

Essential Job Duties

1. Provides individualized attention to resident’s daily personal care needs, which may include grooming, bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, incontinence, and other needs in keeping with their care requirements.
2. Assisting residents with lifts, moves and transports, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
3. Positively encouraging, reminding and assisting Residents to attend Community activities.
4. Responding to inquiries relating to requests from residents, visitors and other personnel promptly and courteously within given time frames and established policy
5. Adhering to assigned resident rotation daily to assist in needs and ensure cleanliness of the resident and resident rooms. This may include cleaning rooms and/or laundering.
6. Is knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for residents, and provides support to the residents according to their care plan. Contributes 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.
7. Communicates and interacts effectively and tactfully with the residents, visitors, families, peers and supervisors promoting a homelike environment.
8. Fully understands 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.
9. Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures, including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated and proper disposal of soiled materials. Also providing 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 by applying moisturizers to fragile skin and other areas.
10. Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including checking vital signs, recognizing and reporting abnormal changes weighing residents, applying creams/ointments and collecting specimens.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time; therefore, this job description is subject to change at any time

Qualifications:

1. High school diploma or general education diploma (GED) is required. 
2. Certified Nursing Assistant Certification by, and in good standing with, the State of Louisiana required and have completed a nurse aide training and competency evaluation program (NATCEP).
3. Completion of Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation Program for Long Term Care Facility preferred.
4. Must meet all healthcare requirements, including Tuberculosis skin test
5. Certified in cardiac pulmonary resuscitation and adult first aid within ninety (90) days of hire.
6. Must be in positive standing with all healthcare agencies, including the Direct Services Workers Registry.
7. Assisted Living Facility experience preferred.

Mental Demands:

Work requires adherence to precise procedures and standards involving a high degree of accuracy in observing, recording and reporting data. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate and exchange information accurately.

Physical Demands:

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

Must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.

This position is very active and requires frequent standing/walking, bending/stooping, lifting/handling, pushing/pulling and occasional carrying. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds and the frequency of treatments may vary from resident to resident. Occasionally, the feet and legs are used in the motion to release and lock brakes of wheelchairs and beds.