Certified Nursing Assistant

Job Classification: Non-Exempt, Part-Time or Full-Time

Reporting Relationship: Director of Nursing

Primary Accountabilities:

Cares for residents in the retirement and nursing community under direction of nursing and medical staff.

Major Duties:

• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs.
• Bathes, dresses, and undresses residents.
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds residents requiring help.
• Transports residents or assists residents to walk.
• Drapes residents for examinations and treatments and remains with residents to perform such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
• Turns and repositions bedfast residents, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone.
• Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Cleans, sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues dressing packs, treatment trays, and other supplies.
• Dusts and cleans residents' rooms.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Certified as a nurse aide in the state of Kansas.
• One year’s experience in the long-term care setting preferred.
• Language Ability:

• • Ability to communicate effectively in writing and speaking the primary language of the residents.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical Skills:

• • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Cognitive Demands:

• • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Computer Skills:

Ability to respond to computerized logs and notification of location of resident calls.

• Competencies (Example):

• • Ability to operate general office equipment.
  • Ability to operate general healthcare equipment.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to stand, walk and sit for extended periods of time.
• Work normally requires finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination to operate computer keyboard at a moderate skill level.
• Ability to read computer screens and email, mail and talk on the phone.
• Ability to lift up to fifty (50) pounds.

Work Environment:

• Professional and deadline-oriented environment in a residential setting.
• Interaction with older adults with varying levels of ability.
• Team environment.
• Possible exposure to unpleasant odors
• Possible exposure to chemicals as identified in the MSDS Manual
• Continuous exposure to residents who are ill, confused, irritable and irrational
• May be exposed to water and heat.

Additional Duties:

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee(s) holding this position. Employees are required to follow any other job-related

instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.