FT 6p-6a Certified Nurses Aide

Campbell Street•Norwalk, IA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) provides residents with high-quality routine direct care in activities of daily living under the supervision of an LPN or RN. In accordance with the 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 the needs of cognitively impaired residents. The CNA is part of an interdisciplinary care team focused on promoting independence, autonomous decision-making, and residents’ highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. This role supports resident-centered care through communication, observation, documentation, and collaboration with residents, families, visitors, nursing staff, and other care team members. The CNA helps maintain a safe, clean environment, follows infection-control and privacy requirements, and promptly reports concerns, incidents, errors, or changes in a resident’s condition. The position is listed as FT, 6 p.m.–6 a.m., at the Sunset Dr Norwalk location in Norwalk, Iowa. Campbell Street describes its workplace as a supportive environment focused on employee growth and exceptional care.

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 avoid taking feedback personally.
Ability to get along with different personality types and inspire trust with residents, staff, and families.
Ability to actively listen with the goal of understanding.
Ability to clearly speak, read, write, and understand English.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Provide routine resident care and support activities of daily living under the supervision of an LPN or RN.
Uphold residents’ rights and promptly report suspected or witnessed abuse, mistreatment, neglect, or misappropriation of property.
Build respectful, resident-centered relationships and communicate in accordance with each resident’s Plan of Care and individual needs.
Perform directed nursing care, including taking and recording vital signs, measuring and recording height and weight, recognizing and reporting abnormal changes, and caring for residents who are actively dying.
Provide personal care, including bathing, grooming, mouth care, dressing, toileting, eating and hydration, skin care, transfers, positioning, and turning.
Support residents’ nutrition and hydration by assisting with meals, monitoring and recording intake and output, offering fluids, serving nourishment as directed, observing dietary restrictions, and following food safety practices.
Provide directed restorative services, including self-care training, use of assistive devices, range-of-motion activities, positioning, bowel and bladder training, and care of prosthetic and orthotic devices.
Assist nurses with special procedures, critical care sheets, and care conferences as directed.
Support residents’ participation in activities and help them resolve grievances or disputes.
Maintain residents’ dignity, privacy, independence, personal possessions, and security.
Interact courteously and cooperatively with residents’ families or support networks, visitors, and the interdisciplinary care team.
Recognize the limits of personal knowledge, skill, and experience and bring situations beyond the CNA’s competency to appropriate staff.
Answer call lights promptly and courteously and use proper body mechanics and safe lifting, positioning, and equipment practices.
Follow infection-control procedures, Standard Precautions, OSHA bloodborne-pathogen guidelines, and requirements for PPE, handwashing, and cleaning or disinfection.
Maintain a safe, clean resident and facility environment and handle infectious linens and equipment or waste appropriately.
Avoid the use of restraints in accordance with DHS nursing home standards.
Complete accurate care documentation and maintain secure, complete 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 work assignments based on staffing and resident acuity; review departing staff reports, ensure assigned duties are complete, and report off to the nurse at the end of the shift.
Communicate resident needs, changes, and responses to interventions to the primary caregivers and LPN or RN.