Certified Nursing Asst

Position Summary

The CNA is responsible for providing quality care to residents both physically and emotionally to enhance quality of life.

Benefits may include depending on fulltime/part-time status:

• Paid vacation and paid sick leave
• Access to health insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Attendance bonuses
• Holiday bonus

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Overall responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal care including bathing, grooming, hygiene and placement of adaptive equipment
• Explain procedures to residents before administering
• Keep residents dry (changes gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled)
• Change bed linens and keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under residents
• Make beds (occupied and unoccupied)
• Handle linens according to infection control guidelines
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions
• Prepare residents for transporting to appointments, activities and social programs
• Assist with lifting, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs
• Assist residents in ambulation with or without self-help devices as instructed
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed
• Accurately measure and record heights and weights
• Accurately measure and record temperatures, pulses, respirations and blood pressures (TPRs and B/P) as instructed
• Empty urinary drainage bags and record amount in record; report any irregularities to nurse
• Ensure call lights are within reach of residents and answer call lights promptly
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently
• Report all changes in residents’ condition to supervisor as soon as practical
• Ensure that residents’ personal care needs are being met in accordance with residents’ wishes
• Complete appropriate charge and inventory slips and monitor supply inventory daily
• Clean instruments and equipment and return to proper area after use
• Straighten dresser tops and stands
• Maintain cleanliness of resident units, central bathing area, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms and linen closets; clean bedpans, urinals and commodes; wash basins and emesis basins; sanitize bath tub after each resident’s use; clean floors if resident is incontinent; wipe spilled foods and liquids
• Provide post-mortem care as instructed
• Turn bedfast residents as instructed
• Provide Range of Motion exercises
• Provide daily indwelling catheter care
• Provides perineal care

Food Service Responsibilities

• Assure that residents are positioned appropriately for meals
• Assure that appropriate utensils are within reach of residents
• Serve food trays and assist with feeding as indicated
• Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift) and within easy reach of residents
• Deliver and document all a.m., p.m., and bedtime snacks and supplements
• Provide hydration to all residents according to center policy

Documentation

• Accurately record all entries in the AOD system, I’s and O’s, Quality of Life and food acceptance

Admission, Transfer and Discharge Responsibilities

• Make residents comfortable and orient as necessary
• Inventory and store residents’ personal possessions as instructed
• Assist with loading/unloading residents from vehicles as necessary
• Establish and maintain good public relations with residents, families and other center guests and show empathy toward residents

Care Plan Responsibilities

• Participate in care conference as indicated and follow individual resident care plans

Administrative Responsibilities

• Report observations concerning structural, equipment, and furniture defects and malfunctioning to appropriate personnel and record in work order binder
• Utilize supplies and equipment properly and without waste
• Perform any miscellaneous work assignments as may be required

General Responsibilities

• Adhere to the policies and procedures of the business with the highest practical standards
• Participate in and maintain current on all training and education required by the company
• Communicate effectively with all members of the staff and business partners
• Provide feedback to others for continuous quality improvement of the entire organization
• Openly accept feedback from others for the continuous quality improvement of the entire organization
• Escalate issues when there is appearance that business standards of quality are not present
• Comply with all rules and regulations of the organization, including HIPAA and safety
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Experience: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Required:

• Certified Nursing Certificate (CNA); must be registered with the state in good standing
• Ability to communicate with residents and staff
• Basic proficiency with MS Office and ability to learn company systems
• Ability to work holiday and weekend hours as well as to be on call

Preferred:

• Previous nursing assistant experience in a similar environment

Essential Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Approachable, customer service orientation
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Think and act calmly and logically to meet unusual occurrences of the job without being thrown off stride
• Detail orientation
• Must have ability to perform duties accurately and rapidly under tight deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to take direction and fulfill task requirements

Language Skills

• Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently

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

• Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl and climb
• Use hands to feel, and reach with hand and arms
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (may lift larger amounts of weight occasionally due to helping with transferring residents to beds or wheelchairs)
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Entire building, resident rooms and common areas
• May escort residents to outside appointments
• Exposure to disagreeable conditions including odors, infection, illness and physical contact from disruptive residents
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.