Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) - General Surgery FT, Nights

Prisma Health•Greenville, SC

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Nurse Assistant assists the Registered Nurse in providing patient care according to each patient’s individualized plan of care. As delegated, the CNA performs basic nursing activities, collects data, monitors and documents patient status, and promptly informs the RN of activities performed, observations, and changes in patient status. The role protects patient confidentiality, uses safe patient-handling practices, and helps maintain a neat and clean patient environment. The CNA supports patients with activities of daily living, mobility, fall prevention, delegated restraint interventions, comfort measures, and non-pharmacological pain management. The position also includes delegated patient-care tasks, data collection and documentation, point-of-care testing, reporting lab values to the RN, responding to call lights, answering the telephone, and running errands. This is a non-management position in General Surgery at Greenville Memorial Hospital, working the night shift.

Requirements

Completion of a nursing assistant or patient care technician program.
Current Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification.
Basic computer and data-entry skills.
Mathematical skills.
Working knowledge of patient equipment, including suction, vital-sign equipment, and defibrillators.

Responsibilities

Assist patients with activities of daily living.
Turn and reposition patients alone or with assistance; transport patients and assist them with walking as needed.
Assist with fall-prevention interventions and patient restraints as delegated.
Provide patient care delegated by the RN, including non-sterile soaks, application of non-sterile simple dressings, and perineal care.
Collect vital signs, fluid intake and output, and basic and sterile specimens.
Document and maintain data in the medical record, and inform the RN of activities performed, patient observations, and changes in patient status.
Run errands, answer the telephone, and answer and respond to call lights.
Perform point-of-care testing as trained and delegated by the RN, and report lab values to the RN.
Provide and document comfort measures and non-pharmacological pain management.
Maintain patient confidentiality, use safe patient-handling practices, and help keep the patient environment neat and clean.
Perform other duties as assigned.