What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Assistant Certified - Transitional Care position at McLaren Health Care?
Requires State of Michigan - Certified Nursing Assistant
Full Time Day Shift (6:30am - 7:00pm)
Position Summary:
Under the direction of a Licensed Nurse, supports the Nursing Staff by performing basic nursing care to the resident. Assist and maintains a safe and clean work environment. Maintains resident privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and respects resident’s rights.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Required:
Full Time Day Shift (6:30am - 7:00pm)
Position Summary:
Under the direction of a Licensed Nurse, supports the Nursing Staff by performing basic nursing care to the resident. Assist and maintains a safe and clean work environment. Maintains resident privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and respects resident’s rights.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Hourly Rounding including: Pain, Position, Personal needs, and Possessions
- Assist residents in and out of bed and into a wheelchair using the correct lifting and transferring technique.
- Gives residents baths.
- Assists residents in dressing and undressing.
- Assists residents in using the bathroom and giving personal care.
- Assists residents to dining area for meals. Helps feed residents.
- Strips beds and replaces with clean linens.
- Turn the resident intermittently if bedridden due to illness.
- Assist with toileting via bedpan, urinal, bedside commode, or to the bathroom, following toileting schedules.
- Document information regarding resident’s health.
- Clean residents’ closets and bedside cabinets.
- Transfer residents according to prescribed transfer technique.
- Rinse soiled linen/handle soiled linen in accordance with Infection Control Policy/Standard Precautions.
- Position residents in bed, using a lift or manually, lifting from chair to bed. Assist in and out of shower and routinely assist resident in range of motion exercise. Follow turning and OOB schedules.
- Bend, twist and stoop on a regular basis and be able to lift a minimum of 75 pounds.
- Assist residents with exercises, walking and encourage self help progress.
- Wash bed pans, urinals, commodes and wheelchairs.
- Pass feeding trays and assist residents in eating and picking up trays.
- Pass juice and snacks as required.
- Continuously make resident care rounds, placing side rails, reposition residents, encouraging and alleviating distress using proper methodology.
- Change and clean up an incontinent resident.
- Answer all resident calls and lights not just those on your assignment.
- Assist residents with activities during shift.
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Successful completion of a Michigan State Certified Nurse Aide training program & current State of Michigan certification
- BLS Certification within 3 months of hire
- Previous experience as a Nurse Aide
- Schedule: Full-time
- Requisition ID: 26002821
- Daily Work Times: 6:30am - 7:00pm
- Hours Per Pay Period: 72
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes