CNA 5S Med Surg
About The Position
As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will support patient comfort, safety, and recovery under RN direction. You will provide compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and contribute to patients’ plans of care as a member of the interdisciplinary team. The role requires a spirit of service, strong communication skills, meticulous patient support, and commitment to dignified, high-quality healthcare. The position provides personal care and physical comfort, prepares patients and supplies for procedures, performs and documents clinical activities within scope of practice, observes and reports changes in patient condition, and assists with specimen transport and patient admissions, discharges, and transfers. It also includes maintaining supplies and equipment, supporting a safe and organized environment, following safety and infection-prevention standards, and participating in quality improvement and growth opportunities.
Requirements
- Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program or military medical specialty training.
- Certified Nursing Assistant credential.
- Basic Life Support CPR certification from the American Heart Association.
Nice To Haves
- Six months of related work experience.
- Experience in a hospital setting.
Responsibilities
- Provides patient personal care and hygiene and supports physical comfort, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination.
- Provides additional care to meet patients’ personal primary needs and comfort, based on skill, ability, scope-of-practice limitations, and patient acuity.
- Prepares patients, equipment, and supplies for specific procedures and examinations.
- Performs, monitors, reports, and documents clinical activities within scope of practice.
- Observes patients and reports changes in condition to the RN.
- Obtains labels and transports samples such as urine, stool, sputum specimens, and blood products.
- Provides patient information to nursing staff for inclusion in the interdisciplinary plan of care and documents relevant patient data according to work unit standards.
- Assists nursing staff with patient admission, discharge, and transfer activities, including managing belongings, providing personal care and comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients.
- Maintains a neat and organized work environment.
- Orders, stocks, and replenishes supplies and equipment; reports supply or equipment problems; and submits repair requests, tags equipment, and removes it from service when needed.
- Maintains a safe work and patient environment and adheres to hospital safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention standards.
- Participates in quality assurance and improvement initiatives and activities as requested.
- Participates in growth opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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