Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) PRN

Altamaha Health Center • Jesup, GA

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About The Position

Altamaha Health Center is hiring a Certified Nurse Aide to provide care in short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. Under the supervision of the Director of Nursing, the aide uses a general understanding of nursing principles and basic physical assessment skills to help develop and implement individualized Nursing Care Plans. The role includes customer-care activities and related nonprofessional services that support customers’ personal needs and comfort.

The aide performs assigned duties according to established methods and recognized standards, provides care within the limits of delegated tasks, and assists with admissions, discharges, transfers, treatments, personal care, mobility, meals, monitoring, and documentation. The position requires completion of a state-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program and attendance at continuing education programs provided by the Center to maintain certification.

Requirements

• Successfully completed a State-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program.
• Able to read, write, and understand English.
• Attend a minimum of 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 according to established methods, techniques, and recognized standards.
• Provide customer care within the limits of delegated tasks.
• Assist the nurse with customer admissions, discharges, and transfers; treatments; and care of personal belongings.
• Bathe customers in bed, tub, or shower; comb hair; clean and cut fingernails; and provide shampoos.
• Position customers in correct body alignment and apply safety measures under the direction of the 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 them to the rehabilitation area.
• Participate in formulating and following through on 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 provide fresh ice and water at the bedside.
• Answer call lights or bells, deliver messages, administer bedpans and urinals, and clean areas of spillage or customer accidents.
• Perform isolation care as needed for 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.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: High school or GED