Certified Nurse Aide Parttime Optalis of Wyoming

Optalis • Wyoming, MI

19d

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant provides nursing and related services to residents in accordance with each resident’s comprehensive assessment and plan of care. Care is provided to meet residents’ physical, mental, and psychosocial needs and to help them attain or maintain the highest practicable level of functioning. The aide maintains a homelike environment, protects and promotes residents’ rights, and supports their independence and control to the greatest extent possible.

The role includes basic patient care and activities of daily living, maintaining residents’ personal hygiene, providing direct care according to care plans, reporting and documenting changes, and following facility policies, including infection-control and universal-precautions procedures. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time.

Requirements

• High school graduate or GED.
• Successful completion of a state-approved nurse aide training and competency evaluation program within four months of hire, or successful completion of such a program with no break in service of 24 months or longer.
• Acceptable verification from the State Nurse Aide Registry concerning abuse, neglect, mistreatment of residents, or misappropriation of residents’ property.
• Ability to respond productively to change and handle additional tasks or projects as assigned.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Ability to perform essential job functions without posing a specific, current risk of substantial harm to the health and safety of oneself or others.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of resident and facility information.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and complete duties or projects within allotted time.
• Integrity and honesty in the care and use of resident and facility property.
• Ability to recognize changes in residents’ conditions through physical symptoms, verbal expression, or observed changes in mental or psychosocial status.
• Ability to function in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Ability to maintain a clean, well-groomed appearance and wear the facility-required uniform.
• Ability to perform repeated pulling, pushing, bending, stooping, lifting, and supporting; work is predominantly standing.
• Ability to lift and position patients of various heights and weights; no lifting restrictions.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience providing personal care to impaired individuals in a health care setting.

Responsibilities

• Perform basic care duties, including bathing, feeding, assisting with activities of daily living, and designated unsterile procedures such as enemas, sitz baths, intake and output, and blood-pressure measurements; respond promptly to residents’ needs.
• Make occupied and unoccupied beds, maintain an orderly environment, and distribute nourishments.
• Maintain residents’ personal and oral hygiene, including hair, nails, mouth, and back care.
• Provide direct care to improve or maintain residents’ abilities according to their plans of care.
• Assist with planning, implementing, and evaluating care plans for assigned residents; report residents’ conditions, responses to interventions, and suggestions for alternative approaches to the Unit Charge Nurse.
• Document and revise residents’ FYI records as needed.
• Follow facility policies and procedures, including infection-control policies; use personal protective equipment properly and follow Universal Precautions.
• Maintain a homelike environment, protect and promote residents’ rights, and support resident independence and control.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED