Certified Nursing Assistant - Care Center
About The Position
The Long Term Care Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct care to long-term care residents according to their care plans, helping each resident achieve and maintain the highest possible level of health and physical condition. The role involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team and delivering care in a manner that respects each resident’s choices, privacy, dignity, individuality, and rights. The position is based at Sioux Center Health’s Care Center in Sioux Center, Iowa, and works an evening shift. General hours are four shifts of 8 or 9 hours, with weekend and holiday involvement. Sioux Center Health describes its workplace as a caring Christian culture focused on quality care and service.
Requirements
- Certification as a Nursing Assistant in the State of Iowa is required.
- Attend 12 hours of in-service training yearly.
Nice To Haves
- Completion of a 75-hour C.N.A. course is preferred.
- High school diploma or GED is preferred.
- Prior related work experience is preferred.
- CPR certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Communicate effectively with residents, families, and coworkers to protect and promote residents’ dignity, individuality, and rights.
- Assess residents’ daily needs and treatments, including obtaining and recording vital signs, height, and weight, and assessing assistance needs or independence with dressing, bathing, eating, and ambulation.
- Consider residents’ choices, privacy, dignity, and independence when conducting assessments.
- Provide input into the care-planning process as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide or assist with daily needs and treatments according to established policies and procedures, including bathing, dressing, shaving, oral hygiene, bed making, transfers, repositioning, toileting, meal service, feeding, call lights, maintaining a clean environment, transportation upon admission and dismissal, ambulation, and orientation to the facility.
- Perform or assist with specific medical care activities according to established policies and procedures, including restorative exercises, specimen collection, enemas, bowel and bladder training, and pain management.
- Assess and document completed care, intake and output, baths, dietary intake, and calorie counts on flow sheets; promptly provide nursing staff with feedback about residents’ status, condition changes, pain, and other concerns.
- Follow safety and infection-control procedures, including procedures for fire, tornado, evacuation, disaster plans, universal precautions, infection control, and hazardous and chemical communication.
- Demonstrate knowledge of and actively support the facility’s strategic and operational plans and functions.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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