Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) FULL TIME DAY SHIFT
About The Position
Altamaha Health Center is hiring a full-time, day-shift Certified Nurse Aide to provide care for customers receiving short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. Under the supervision of the Director of Nursing, the CNA applies a general understanding of nursing principles and basic physical assessment skills to help develop and implement individualized Nursing Care Plans. The role provides customer-care activities and related nonprofessional services that support customers’ personal needs and comfort. The CNA performs assigned care duties using established methods and recognized standards, within the limits of delegated tasks. Duties include assisting with personal care, mobility, meals, treatments, appointments, and nursing care plans; taking and recording vital signs and other customer information; maintaining equipment and linens; and reporting changes in condition, concerns, or complaints to a nurse or supervisor. The position requires completion of a State-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program, the ability to read, write, and understand English, and attendance at Center-provided continuing education to maintain certification.
Requirements
- Successfully complete a State-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program.
- Be able to read, write, and understand English.
- Attend at least 18 hours of continuing education programs provided by the Center to maintain certification.
Nice To Haves
- A high school education or high school equivalency diploma is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Perform duties in accordance with established methods, techniques, and recognized standards, providing customer care within the limits of delegated tasks.
- Assist nurses with customer admissions, discharges, transfers, treatments, and care of customers’ personal belongings.
- Provide personal care, including bathing, combing hair, cleaning and cutting fingernails, and shampooing.
- Position customers in correct body alignment and apply safety measures under the direction of a nurse.
- Assist customers in and out of bed, help them walk, and transport them within the Center by wheelchair, Geri-chair, or stretcher; accompany them outside the Center for appointments as needed.
- Coordinate scheduling for customers requiring occupational, physical, or speech therapy and help transport customers to the rehabilitation area.
- Participate in formulating and carrying out customers’ Nursing Care Plans.
- Take and record weights, blood pressures, temperatures, pulse, and respiration in the electronic medical record.
- Provide skin care treatments and apply simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages under the direction of a Licensed Nurse.
- Feed customers, assist with meals, provide between-meal nourishment, and bring fresh ice and water to customers’ bedsides.
- Answer call lights or bells, deliver messages, administer bedpans and urinals, and clean spills or accidents caused by customers.
- Provide isolation care as required by a customer’s condition.
- Report changes in customers’ conditions, family concerns, and customer complaints to a nurse and/or supervisor.
- Collect and bag soiled linen and deliver it to the dirty linen area.
- Clean and sterilize customer equipment.
- Complete records of customers’ oral intake and output.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
