Home Health- CNA- Sun City/Surprise
About The Position
The Certified Nursing Assistant provides personal care and services to terminally ill patients to supplement care provided by family members. The CNA works under the direction, instruction, and supervision of a nurse and/or nurse supervisor, following written assignments and the patient's interdisciplinary care plan. The position serves the Sun City/Surprise, Arizona area. The CNA provides assistance with personal hygiene, maintaining a safe and healthy environment, meals and feeding, ambulation and mobility aids, specified treatments, prescribed range-of-motion exercises, and activities that encourage independence and mental alertness. Certain tasks may be performed only when ordered or taught and supervised by a nurse for the specific patient. The CNA also offers basic emotional and psychological support, reports changes in the patient's condition or home situation, teaches basic care to the primary caregiver, observes infection-control standards, records vital signs and care activities, assists with care-plan preparation and implementation, completes required in-service training, and participates in quality improvement. The CNA may not perform specified clinical procedures, including changing sterile dressings, irrigating body cavities, colostomies or wounds, catheterizing, administering medications other than those ordinarily self-administered, applying heat, caring for a tracheotomy tube, suctioning, or providing services not included in the nurse's patient care plan.
Requirements
- One year of direct patient-care experience in an institutional setting.
- Ability to travel as required by the job.
- Telephone available in the home.
Nice To Haves
- High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
- Proof of state certification, if applicable.
Responsibilities
- Provide personal care activities included in the patient's written assignment, including assistance with personal hygiene and maintaining a safe, healthy environment.
- Plan and prepare nutritious meals, shop for groceries when instructed by the nurse, assist with feeding, and assist with special diets as ordered and taught and supervised by a nurse.
- Assist with ambulation and use of a walker or wheelchair as taught and supervised by a nurse for the specific patient.
- Assist with specified physician-ordered treatments when taught and supervised by a nurse, including colostomy bag changes, dressing reinforcement, prescribed ice caps or collars, simple urine tests, measuring intake and output, and assistance with ordinarily self-administered medications.
- Assist with prescribed range-of-motion exercises taught by a nurse or physical therapist.
- Encourage patient independence in accordance with the interdisciplinary care plan and promote mental alertness through activities of interest.
- Provide simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and household members.
- Report changes in the patient's mental or physical condition or home situation to the hospice nurse and interdisciplinary team.
- Teach basic care to the primary caregiver.
- Practice infection-control measures in accordance with OSHA standards.
- Read and record temperature, pulse, and respiration.
- Maintain accurate records of patient health-care activities on interdisciplinary charts.
- Evaluate patient and family needs and assist in preparing and carrying out the interdisciplinary plan of care.
- Complete at least 12 hours of in-service training per year.
- Participate in at least one quality-improvement activity yearly.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
