BT CNA (HC) - PRN

BRAZOS PRESBYTERIAN HOMES•Houston, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor is seeking a Certified Nursing Aide (CNA) with a strong positive attitude toward customer service. This role involves working with older adults, engaging, motivating, and supporting both residents and team members. The ideal candidate is dependable, compassionate, and aligns with the values of respect, excellence, and community. Creativity, teamwork, and a drive to exceed expectations are key traits for this position, contributing to the mission of uplifting the lives of those served.

Requirements

Minimum current State of Texas Nurse Assistant Certification.
One year of experience working as a Certified Nurse Assistant.
Experience including some medical/surgical experience.
Awareness of the needs of geriatric residents.

Nice To Haves

Strong positive attitude toward customer service.
Genuine interest in working with older adults.
Ability to engage, motivate, and support residents and team members.
Dependable, compassionate.
Aligned with values of respect, excellence, and community.
Creativity, teamwork, and a drive to exceed expectations.

Responsibilities

Assist residents in and out of bed and chair or wheelchair with the correct use of the transfer belt (gait belt), potentially requiring assistance from another aide or a mechanical lift.
Assist residents in bathing, dressing, and undressing.
Manage laundry, including folding or hanging clean items and placing soiled items in hampers or barrels.
Assist residents with using the bathroom and provide peri care.
Provide, remove, and clean bedpans, urinals, and bedside commodes.
Take and record vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate).
Assist residents to the dining area or provide meals in their rooms, including tray setup, feeding, and documenting intake.
Serve between-meal nourishment and record amounts eaten.
Maintain clean pitchers and cups, and ensure fresh water is available at each resident's bedside.
Remove soiled bedding and replace with clean linens.
Assist with personal grooming, such as brushing hair, teeth, and trimming fingernails and toenails.
Monitor hygiene continuously and assist as needed to ensure residents are clean and neat.
Turn and reposition residents who are unable to reposition themselves.
Clean equipment such as bedpans, basins, and empty catheter bags.
Maintain each bedside unit in a neat and orderly condition, including cleaning table surfaces and storing personal items.
Observe and report housekeeping and maintenance needs promptly (e.g., broken fixtures, burned-out light bulbs, soiled floors/curtains).
Maintain bedside care supplies, using the charge system to record items obtained from facility stock, and notify the charge nurse for items to be supplied by family.
Maintain clean and orderly service areas, which may include washing dishes, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming floors, cleaning countertops, and straightening resident apartments.
Ensure the maximum quality of life for residents by maintaining privacy, accommodating preferences, promoting independence, encouraging participation in activities, and communicating respectfully.
Respond promptly to all call lights and keep call lights within reach of non-ambulatory residents when unattended.
Maintain continuous communication with the team leader, participating in reports and communicating changes or unusual observations about residents' physical and psychosocial functioning.
Attend unit meetings, all mandatory in-services, and optional in-services for at least 12 hours annually, with outside educational offerings potentially substituting for optional hours.
Remove soiled personal laundry, launder, fold, and put away in residents' apartments.
Maintain work area and ensure the department complies with OSHA safety standards.
Effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
Demonstrate community hospitality promises towards residents, families, associates, and vendors.