What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Nurse Aide - Homecare position at Hospice of Hilo dba Hawaii Care Choices?
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Homecare
Status: Non-Exempt
Focus Areas:
Direct Patient Care & Homemaker Support | Adherence to Hospice Care Plans & Regulations | Accurate Documentation & Reporting | Effective Communication & Team Collaboration | Safety Practices & Cost Containment
Position Summary:
The Hospice Aide provides compassionate, high-quality personal care and support services to patients in alignment with the hospice plan of care. Under the supervision of the Hospice RN and Supervisor, the Hospice Aide assists with daily living activities, personal hygiene, grooming, and light homemaking tasks. This role ensures patient comfort and dignity while maintaining compliance with federal, state, and organizational standards. The Hospice Aide accurately documents care, communicates patient condition changes to the clinical team, and adheres to safety and cost-containment practices. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to excellence in end-of-life care are essential to this role.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Carries out assigned responsibilities and follows instructions as directed by the Hospice RN and the Manager.
- Completes scheduled and assigned patient visits in a timely and efficient manner.
- Utilizes safe and appropriate techniques when assisting hospice patients with personal hygiene, grooming, activities of daily living, and homemaker services, in accordance with federal, state, and organizational regulations.
- Accurately documents all care provided, services rendered, and observations made, in alignment with hospice protocols. Promptly communicates any changes in the patient’s condition to the RN. Submits timesheets, mileage logs, and other required documentation in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrates effective communication skills, including the ability to read, write, and verbally report clinical information to the supervising RN, Clinical Team Leader, and other care team members.
- Supports the organization’s cost-containment initiatives while maintaining high standards of patient care.
Skill & Knowledge Requirements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic nursing skills (i.e. taking vital signs, measuring output, recognition of abnormal signs and symptoms, etc.); patient rights; standard precautions; infection control; body mechanics; purpose and benefits of activities of daily living; personal hygiene care; basic medical and nursing terminology.
- Ability to independently provide direct personal care services to patients in their homes; ability to work with patients and families coping with a terminal illness.
- Ability to exercise judgment in provision of care and communication.
- Ability to adapt to different lifestyles, cultures and living arrangements.
- Interest and desire to give hospice care with a special sensitivity to the needs of the dying.
- Maintenance of adequate educational and experiential level to meet the needs of the patients and care givers and regulations established by state and federal laws.
- Possession and maintenance of a valid State of Hawai’i Nurse Aide Certificate certification.
Education & Experience:
- State Certification from a State of Hawai’i Certified Nurse Aide Training Program.
- At least two years CNA experience in home health or hospice care in the community.
- Frequent work with health care equipment including wheelchairs, oxygen concentrators and tanks, hospital beds, shower chair, bedside commode, nursing assessment and care-related equipment.
- Use of telephones, pagers, and personal cellular phones (prohibited while driving).
- Occasional use of Hoyer lifts, computer, fax machine, hole puncher, paper shredder, paper cutter, copier.
- Frequent use of private vehicle.
Work Hours:
- Primarily Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the possibility of occasional evening, weekend, and holiday work with a half-hour meal break.
- Holidays observed.
Pay $20.00 - $25.00/ hourly
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.
Salary : $20 - $25