Certified Nurses Aide

Campbell Street•Adel, IA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) provides residents with high-quality routine care in activities of daily living under the supervision of an LPN or RN. In accordance with each resident’s Plan of Care, Nursing Assistant Program standards, the Resident’s Bill of Rights, and the facility’s QAPI program, the CNA performs basic nursing, personal care, and restorative services while attending to residents’ mental health and social-service needs, including those of cognitively impaired residents. As part of the interdisciplinary care team, the CNA promotes independence, autonomous decision-making, and residents’ highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. The CNA builds respectful, resident-centered relationships; protects residents’ dignity, rights, privacy, and possessions; monitors and documents care; and promptly communicates changes, concerns, incidents, and errors to the appropriate staff. Duties include taking vital signs and measurements, assisting with personal care and nutrition, transfers and positioning, restorative activities, and nurse-directed procedures. The CNA follows safety, infection-control, OSHA, documentation, and HIPAA requirements; answers call lights; and coordinates assigned work and shift handoffs with nursing staff.

Requirements

Completion of a state-approved Nursing Assistant Program for the state in which the facility operates.
Current certification and listing on the state Registry.
Ability to welcome constructive feedback, course-correct, and not take feedback personally.
Ability to get along with people with different personalities and inspire trust with residents, staff, and families.
Ability to actively listen with the goal of understanding.
Ability to clearly speak and proficiently read, write, and understand English.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a skilled nursing and/or assisted living community.

Responsibilities

Provide routine direct care in accordance with each resident’s Plan of Care and under LPN or RN supervision.
Protect residents from abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and misappropriation of property; promptly report suspicions and witnessed or reported events.
Build resident-centered relationships and communicate competently with residents, families, visitors, and the interdisciplinary care team.
Perform directed nursing, personal-care, and restorative services while respecting residents’ dignity, rights, privacy, and autonomous decision-making.
Monitor resident care and outcomes, accurately document care, and report changes in condition and responses to interventions to the LPN or RN.
Take and record vital signs, height, and weight; recognize abnormal changes in body functioning; and report them to the LPN or RN.
Assist with bathing, grooming, mouth care, dressing, toileting, eating, hydration, skin care, transfers, positioning, and turning.
Support nutrition and hydration by assisting residents to and from dining, feeding or assisting with feeding, monitoring and recording intake and output, offering fluids, handling trays, serving nurse-directed supplemental nourishment, and following dietary and food-safety requirements.
Provide basic restorative services, including self-care training, use of assistive devices, range-of-motion maintenance, positioning, bowel and bladder training, and care of prosthetic and orthotic devices.
Assist nurses with directed special procedures, critical-care sheets, and care conferences.
Help residents participate in activities and resolve grievances or disputes; engage residents in meaningful discussion based on their backgrounds and preferences.
Maintain the care and security of residents’ personal possessions.
Recognize the limits of CNA knowledge, skills, and experience and seek assistance when a situation exceeds competency.
Promptly answer call lights and use proper body mechanics and safe lifting, positioning, and equipment practices, including transfer belts and mechanical lifts.
Follow standard precautions, infection-control procedures, OSHA bloodborne-pathogen guidance, handwashing and cleaning schedules, PPE requirements, and safe handling or disposal of infectious linens and equipment.
Maintain a safe, clean environment and avoid restraints in accordance with applicable nursing-home standards.
Complete and secure resident records in compliance with state and federal regulations, including HIPAA; promptly report and document incidents and errors involving residents, staff, visitors, or self.
Prioritize assignments according to staffing and resident acuity; review departing-staff reports, complete assigned and delegated duties, and report off to the nurse before leaving.