Resident Care Assistant (RCA)

Our Resident Care Assistants (RCAs) play an important role in the daily

life of our residents. Whether it\'s help getting ready for the day, at

mealtime, or bedtime, our longstanding team is ready to make sure each

our residents enjoy the opportunities that living at our facility

presents each day. The primary purpose of this position is to provide

each of the assigned residents with routine daily care by assisting with

direct resident care duties and indirect resident care duties, as

directed by the charge nurse, and/or certified nursing assistants.

• RCAs start at \$16.00 an hour, enroll into a CNA program and rate
  
  

increases to \$18.00 once certified as a CNA. Next, we will pay your way

through an LPN program or Associate-level RN program. Essential Job

Functions:** - Assist residents in dressing and personal hygiene. -

Assist CNA\'s with residents requiring 2-staff transfer except in

mechanical transfers. - Make occupied bed. - Assist in obtaining

weights. - Provide full or partial bed bath. - Perform incontinent care

in bed to residents who can move in bed. - Assist residents who are not

on swallowing or aspiration risk with meals. - Pass, set up, and collect

trays. - Place belongings within resident?s reach (call light, glasses,

TV remote, glasses, etc.) - Answers call bells in a timely manner. -

Make unoccupied bed. - Empty commodes and urinals. - Transport residents

to the dining room for meals. - Accompanying residents on outside

appointments as needed. - Visit with residents providing 1:1 supportive

interaction (i.e., read their mail, newspapers, or books to them,

transport them for visits outdoors when within residents? care plan,

transport to activities, transport to hairdresser, help to write

letters, make telephone calls, etc.) - Assist residents in communication

involving technology (zoom, face time, skype, google meet, etc.). -

Assist with monitoring residents to maintain safety providing 1:1

supervision as needed. - Organize, straighten, and clean closets and

dressers (i.e., clothes hung neatly on hangers in closet, folded neatly

in drawers, trash and soiled laundry removed.) - Ensure personal care

items are put away and stocked (check with Team Leaders or Nurse Manager

for appropriate stock.) - Gather supplies need for provisions of care,

passing out linens. - Pass out drinks to independent residents who are

not at risk for impaired swallowing/aspiration, check residents\' drinks

at bedside and verbally encourage residents to drink. - Report

resident\'s intake to Team Leaders. - Offer the resident nourishments

and/or distribute nourishments from the dietary department. - Check fall

precautions: bed monitor, mats, and personal alarms. Check and clean

dirty wheelchairs after each meal or after incontinent episode. - Check

and clean tub and shower room. - Greet newly admitted residents upon

admission, escort to room as necessary, receive paperwork from referring

agency, and inform Unit Manager/Charge Nurse of arrival. - Assist with

inventory of new admissions. - Assist in arranging for and making

appointments for diagnostic therapeutic services. - Direct visitors to

residents\' rooms, office areas, etc. - Photocopy and fax per the needs

of the unit. **Job Types:** Part-time, Full-time [For More information

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