Certified Nursing Assistant|Non-Certified Nursing Assistant, Heart/Lung/Vascular Unit

Methodist Medical Center • Oak Ridge, TN

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About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) position at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge is a full-time role in the Heart/Lung/Vascular Unit, requiring 72 hours per pay period on the night shift, with alternating weekends and holidays. The hospital offers a wide range of specialties and has over 800 employees, providing a supportive environment for patient care. The CNA will function as a direct patient caregiver, assisting registered nurses with hands-on care and various technical tasks under supervision.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent certificate (GED) preferred.
• Hospital experience preferred.
• Knowledge of medical terminology is a plus.
• Ability to operate a computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.
• 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.
• May perform phlebotomy (requires additional training).
• May 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 required of the position.
• 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

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