PRN Certified Nurse Aide

PACS•Jourdanton, TX

29d

About The Position

The Certified Nurse Aide provides assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with each resident’s assessment and care plan, facility policies and procedures, and supervisor direction. The role includes supporting residents with personal care, mobility, meals, comfort, room transitions, and preparation for examinations and medical tests. The aide observes residents, records relevant information, and reports changes, incidents, complaints, injuries, safety concerns, and suspected privacy violations to the appropriate personnel. This PRN position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

At least a 10th-grade education.
Must hold a Certified Nursing Assistant license in accordance with state laws.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and present information and respond to questions effectively.
Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems with limited standardization and interpret written, oral, diagram, or schedule-based instructions.
Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Regular ability to sit, stand, walk, talk, read, or hear; prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer and frequent use of office equipment.

Nice To Haves

CPR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify residents before providing treatments or serving meals when necessary.
Use authorized abbreviations and make informative, descriptive entries in flow sheets, notes, and charts.
Report changes in residents’ conditions, accidents, incidents, complaints, grievances, injuries, skin breakdown, missing residents, and allegations of abuse or misappropriation of property to the appropriate supervisor.
Protect residents’ protected health information and report suspected unauthorized disclosure or access to facility information systems.
Perform only nursing procedures and equipment use for which trained and authorized.
Prepare residents’ rooms and belongings for admission, transfer, or discharge; greet and escort residents, help them settle in, and assist with transport and vehicle loading or unloading as needed.
Promote a warm, calm, and positive environment and cooperate with facility personnel to maintain nursing services.
Attend and participate in nursing reports and scheduled meetings to identify and address service issues.
Follow work assignments, schedules, facility procedures, and blood/body-fluid exposure policies; report occupational exposures and notify the facility of lateness or absence.
Make beds and provide personal care, including dental and mouth care, bathing, grooming, dressing, and changing wet or soiled clothing and linens.
Measure and record residents’ temperatures, pulses, respirations, weights, and other requested information; observe residents and report findings as instructed.
Check residents routinely, answer calls promptly, and ensure residents unable to call for help are checked frequently.
Assist residents with meals, identify food on trays as needed, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, keep water pitchers clean and filled, and provide after-meal care.
Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents using beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, and lifts.
Perform restorative, rehabilitative, and special treatments as instructed; assist residents in preparing for examinations and medical tests.
Honor residents’ treatment refusals and report them to a supervisor.
Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor or Charge Nurse.
Assist in evacuating residents during emergency situations when necessary.