Certified Nursing Assistant 2nd or 3rd Shift

About the position

The position involves providing routine daily nursing care and services to assigned patients in accordance with their assessment and care plan, under the direction of the nurse supervisor. The role requires a commitment to patient safety and the ability to assist with various personal care tasks, ensuring that each patient's needs are met effectively and compassionately.

Responsibilities

• Provides care ensuring patient/resident safety
• Applies & releases restraints, and provides exercise
• Assists patients in and out of bed and into wheelchair with the correct use of the transfer belt and practices proper body mechanics while moving/transferring patients
• Assists patients in bathing: to include bed baths, tub baths, and showers
• Assists patients in dressing or undressing, and personal grooming e.g., oral/denture care, brushing hair, trimming fingernails and toenails, skin care and shaving
• Assists patients to and from activities as requested
• Assists patients to dining area for meals; assists in feeding of patients as needed; passes food trays to individual patients in accordance with diet cards on tray and needs; documents intake of nourishment
• Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested; understands and utilizes care plans
• Collects stool and urine samples per care plan; cleans bedpans and empty catheter bags, provides external/indwelling catheter care
• Displays proper use and care of lift equipment
• Offers fluids at appropriate times (including routine ice and water rounds) and distributes fresh water to patients and picks up used water pitchers
• Properly documents in accordance with established guidelines; receives and gives reports on patient's status or condition
• Provides for bowel and bladder training/retraining, provides colostomy care
• Provides range of motion exercises for patients
• Provides routine care for the bedfast patient; turns patient intermittently if patient is bedridden due to illness
• Recognizes and reports signs/ symptoms of abuse and/or change in condition
• Removes bedding and replaces with clean linens per schedule or condition
• Takes vital signs of patient, e.g., temperature, blood pressure, and respiration and records information and documents/reports information regarding the patient's health, I&O, any change of medical condition, and care given

Requirements

• A minimum of a high school diploma or its equivalent
• Active, current and unrestricted Certified Nursing Assistance certification in the appropriate state