Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical-Surgical Unit

Fort Loudoun Medical Center • Lenoir City, TN

322d

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the Medical-Surgical Unit at Fort Loudoun Medical Center is a PRN/OCC position with variable hours, primarily during the night shift. The facility is equipped with advanced technology and a dedicated team of healthcare professionals committed to providing excellent patient care. The CNA will function as a direct patient caregiver, assisting registered nurses with hands-on care and performing specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader.

Requirements

• CNA Licensure from the State of Tennessee is required upon hire.
• Out of State hires must have the Tennessee CNA License 'in process' as reflected on the state web site upon hire.
• CPR certification required.
• Hospital experience preferred.
• Medical terminology knowledge is a plus.
• Must be able to operate a computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.
• Must have understanding and knowledge of patient care which may be appropriately delegated to nursing assistants.

Responsibilities

• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
• Attend to nutritional needs of patients, which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
• Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
• Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
• Provide general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
• Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
• Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
• Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
• Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training) including correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
• Perform EKG (requires special training).
• Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
• Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
• Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
• Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
• Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
• Gather equipment for O2 set up. Check O2 for connection and proper placement.
• Check for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
• Ambulate patients with oxygen.
• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
• Demonstrate knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
• Demonstrate ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
• Follow policies, procedures, and safety standards. Complete required education assignments annually. Work toward achieving goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals