Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Bridgeway Recovery (Bridgeway Community Health) • Salem, OR

22h • Onsite

About The Position

Bridgeway Community Health is seeking a qualified Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to join their Medically Managed Withdrawal (Detox) team. The role involves providing assistant nursing care to individuals in a medical detox setting, focusing on personal care, maintaining mobility, nutrition, elimination, use of assistive devices, maintaining environment and client safety, and data gathering, recording, and reporting. Bridgeway Community Health's mission is to help people in the community struggling with addiction and psychiatric illness by fostering an agency culture of community, mutual respect, encouragement, and employee growth. The organization has been recognized as one of the 100 Best Nonprofits to Work for in Oregon for 10 years and has achieved national accreditation for professional performance.

Requirements

• High school diploma
• Graduation from an OSBN-approved nursing assistant training program
• Current, unencumbered Oregon CNA 1 certificate, prior to appointment
• Two (2) years of Certified Nursing Assistant experience or any satisfactory equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience relevant to the position
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Spanish/English bilingual (for an additional stipend)

Responsibilities

• Reviews and compares the bed whiteboard with the safety checklist.
• Completes required safety checks hourly throughout the shift and report any concerning behavior or change of condition to nursing staff.
• Adds and removes client names with admits discharges and bed changes.
• Empties all laundry bins, including those located in the admit office, each dorm bathroom, and all back bathrooms.
• Assists clients with nursing staff requests, including obtaining vital signs and providing support with eating, bathing/showering, dressing, transferring, toileting, and other activities of daily living (ADL's).
• Announces mealtimes to clients: Monday – Saturday: Breakfast, Soup, Lunch and Dinner; Sunday: Brunch and Dinner. For brunch, lunch and dinner, write down any meals that need to be saved for clients who choose not to eat and give them to kitchen staff.
• Assists nursing staff by gathering clients for the provider upon doctors' arrival and escorting clients to be seen as directed.
• Routinely checks client beds and remakes as needed. Beds must be disinfected and remade after every discharge, when linens are visibly soiled, or upon client request.
• Assist housekeeping in maintaining cleanliness, including wiping down tables and chairs as needed.
• Washes, dries, folds and properly stores all laundry, including returning towels to bathrooms and placing admit clothing at the end of the client's bed.
• Restocks drinking water in the white refrigerator located in the milieu.
• Assembles and restocks hygiene packets as needed.
• Restocks shower shoes and socks as needed. Notify Sarah N. via email when supplies are running low.
• Assists with other duties as needed, including answering phones, conducting screenings, and supporting client admissions and discharges.
• Monitors the nursing station while nursing staff conducts shift reports and email shift notes.
• Performs general cleaning as needed, including wiping down milieu and dining room tables and chairs, sweeping floors, and maintaining cleanliness and organization in the laundry room.
• Empties all trash bins-including those in the milieu, behind the nurses' station, dining room, ATS office, waiting room, and janitor's closet- into the dumpster.
• Maintains client mobility such as transferring, transporting, positioning, turning and lifting.
• Assists clients with nutrition and hydration such as assistance with eating and drinking.
• Assists clients with the use of a bed pan and urinal and collects specimens.
• Assists clients with 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.
• 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED