What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Nursing Assistant position at State of Utah?
Certified Nursing Assistant
If you would like an opportunity to join a team of passionate individuals who work hard in providing quality medical care, this is the job for you. This is a great opportunity to make an impact and provide quality nursing care as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Job Responsibilities:
- Monitor and record crucial patient health data, including vital signs, height, weight, and fluid balance, promptly reporting any significant observations.
- Ensure a safe and healthy environment by rigorously adhering to infection control protocols and emergency procedures.
- Facilitate patient mobility and comfort through assistance with ambulation, repositioning, and range-of-motion exercises.
- Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of patient areas, workspaces, and medical equipment, and support nursing staff in sterilization efforts.
- Administer physician-ordered, self-administered medications, ensuring patients receive their necessary treatments.
- Safeguard sensitive inmate information by strictly upholding confidentiality standards.
- Approach change with a positive and adaptable mindset, contributing to a dynamic work environment.
Minimum/Required Qualifications:
- Unrestricted Utah CNA Certificate.
- Must be able to pass both a fingerprinting background check and drug screening.
Schedules:
- We are currently hiring for either days or nights. Please note, your answer to the supplemental question regarding the schedule you would prefer may result in you being excluded from interviews.
- Days: 6:00AM - 6:00PM
- Nights: 6:00PM - 6:00AM
- Each schedule will be scheduled for a total of 7 12-hour shifts per pay period with rotating weekends.
The Agency:
The Division of Correctional Health Services has a mission of improving the lives of staff and individuals who are incarcerated and promoting public safety by delivering safe and effective integrated healthcare. To learn more about the agency, please click HERE.
- A conditional offer of employment will be made pending a satisfactory completion of a background check.
- Must have current Certification of Nursing Assistant (CNA).Utah Administrative Rules R432-45
- Requires considerable & strenuous physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, recurring lifting. Must be able to life and carry over 50 pounds.
- Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. being subject to possible physical attack.
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