Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Bridgeway Recovery (Bridgeway Community Health) • Salem, OR

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About The Position

Bridgeway Community Health
is currently seeking qualified
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
to join our Medically Managed Withdrawal (Detox) team!

Come join our growing Medically Managed Withdrawal (Detox) team where you will work alongside those that are passionate about seeing lives changed and relationships restored! We are hiring staff for to provide care for our clients.

Primary Purpose:
Provides assistant nursing care to individuals in a medical detox setting, with a focus on personal care; maintaining mobility; nutrition; elimination; use of assistive devices; maintaining environment and client safety; and data gathering, recording and reporting.

Requirements

• In addition to high school diploma and graduation from an OSBN-approved nursing assistant training program, must possess a current, unencumbered Oregon CNA 1 certificate, prior to appointment and two (2) years of Certified Nursing Assistant experience or any satisfactory equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience relevant to the position.
• Must have comprehensive knowledge of, and skill in performing, current nursing assistant practice; ability to apply nursing assistant knowledge and principles and policies underlying the administration of a nursing assistant service; ability to recognize the needs and concerns of individuals in the course of medical treatments; ability to maintain confidential records and information; ability to accept and abide by supervision received; ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; skilled in English usage; skill in basic mathematics; ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers and the public.

Responsibilities

• Assists clients with tasks associated with personal care such as bathing, dressing, grooming, hygiene care, bed making and maintaining environmental cleanliness.
• Responsive observations such as taking vital signs.
• Maintaining mobility such as transferring, transporting, positioning, turning and lifting.
• Nutrition and hydration such as assistance with eating and drinking.
• Elimination such as using the lavatory, assisting with the use of a bed pan and urinal, and collecting specimens.
• Assistive devices such as caring for dentures, eyeglasses and hearing aids; assisting with wheelchairs, walkers, or crutches; using footboards; assisting with and encouraging the use of self-help devices for eating, grooming and other personal care tasks; and utilizing and assisting clients with devices for transferring, ambulation, and alignment.
• Assists nursing staff with tasks associated with gathering, recording and reporting client data such as measuring temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure; measuring height and weight; measuring and recording oral intake; measuring and recording emesis; measuring and recording liquid stool; measuring and recording pulse oximetry; and collecting responses to pain using a facility-approved pain scale.
• Charts on all clients seen for medical support.
• Attends staff meetings and works as a team member to identify and implement quality of services.
• Maintains an organized and clean work environment; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid Holidays
• Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage
• 5% employer match 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (Pre & Post-Tax Options)
• Corporate Fitness Membership subsidy
• Employer-Sponsored Life, Accidental Death, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan
• Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Internal Growth Opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED