Certified Nursing Assistant

Sterling Village • Sterling, KS

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Cares for residents in the retirement and nursing community under direction of nursing and medical staff.

Requirements

• Certified as a nurse aide in the state of Kansas.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and speaking the primary language of the residents.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to stand, walk and sit for extended periods of time.
• Work normally requires finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination to operate computer keyboard at a moderate skill level.
• Ability to read computer screens and email, mail and talk on the phone.
• Ability to lift up to fifty (50) pounds.

Nice To Haves

• One year’s experience in the long-term care setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs.
• Bathes, dresses, and undresses residents.
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds residents requiring help.
• Transports residents or assists residents to walk.
• Drapes residents for examinations and treatments and remains with residents to perform such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
• Turns and repositions bedfast residents, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone.
• Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Cleans, sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues dressing packs, treatment trays, and other supplies.
• Dusts and cleans residents' rooms.
• Responds to computerized logs and notification of location of resident calls.
• Operates general office equipment.
• Operates general healthcare equipment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed