Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) FULL TIME DAY SHIFT

Altamaha Health Center•Hinesville, GA

23h

About The Position

Altamaha Health Center is hiring a 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 involves customer-care activities and related nonprofessional services that support customers’ personal needs and comfort.

Requirements

Successfully complete a state-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program.
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 using established methods and techniques and in accordance with recognized standards.
Provide customer-care services within the limits of delegated tasks.
Assist the nurse with customer admissions, discharges, and transfers; treatments; and care of customers’ personal belongings.
Bathe customers in bed, in a tub, or in a shower; comb their hair; clean and cut their fingernails; and shampoo their hair.
Position customers in correct body alignment in and out of bed and apply safety measures under the nurse’s direction.
Assist customers in and out of bed and with walking, and transport them throughout the Center by wheelchair, Geri-chair, or stretcher.
Accompany customers transported outside the Center for appointments as needed.
Coordinate scheduling for customers requiring occupational, physical, or speech therapy, ensure they are available for the therapist, and assist with transportation to the rehabilitation area.
Participate in formulating and carrying out customers’ Nursing Care Plans.
Take and record customers’ weights, blood pressures, temperatures, pulse, and respiration in the electronic medical record.
Provide skin-care treatments.
Apply simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages under the direction of a Licensed Nurse.
Feed customers and assist them with meals; provide between-meal nourishment, fresh ice, and water at the bedside.
Answer customer call lights or bells, deliver messages, administer bedpans and urinals, and clean spills or accidents caused by customers.
Provide isolation care as needed based on the customer’s condition.
Report changes in customers’ conditions, family concerns, and customer complaints to the 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.