Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Acute Care (Nights)
About The Position
Under the supervision of a nurse, the Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct patient care, comfort, and assistance with activities of daily living and rehabilitation. The role requires adaptability to changes in assignments, patient status, and unit needs, along with the ability to stay organized in a busy and demanding setting. The position is full-time at 0.9 FTE (72 hours per pay period), with 12-hour overnight shifts from 6:45 p.m. to 7:15 a.m. Employees rotate every third weekend and every third holiday; there are no on-call requirements. The CNA provides and documents patient care, supports patient safety and infection control, maintains equipment and work areas, communicates patient information during handoffs and bedside reporting, and may float to other units or have precepting responsibilities. The role also includes screening people entering the facility, explaining applicable screening and visitor protocols, and maintaining the screening area.
Requirements
- Valid certificate as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
- Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 3 months of hire date.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care under the direction of a Registered Nurse and perform assigned duties.
- Establish and meet timelines for patient care and other work.
- Answer patient call lights within unit-specific guidelines.
- Provide basic hygiene, including bathing, oral care, and dressing.
- Assist with toileting, turning, and ambulation in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Take patient vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, respirations, temperature, oxygen level, and glucose measurements.
- Accurately and promptly relay and document physical and mental status changes, vital signs, meal consumption, liquid intake, glucose results, distances walked, and daily bowel movement and urine amounts.
- Communicate relevant information to the next CNA on shift or the nurse in charge, and participate in bedside reporting.
- Safely care for multiple patients and use appropriate safety precautions.
- Maintain a clean, safe, organized patient environment with adequate supplies.
- Keep equipment clean and safe, and remove and tag equipment that needs repair.
- Float to other units as necessary and provide precepting when assigned.
- Attend required in-services and at least 75% of unit meetings.
- Use Universal Precautions, asepsis, and infection-control procedures.
- Greet people entering the facility and explain temperature and symptom screening and current visitor or patient support partner protocols.
- Ensure people entering the facility are screened according to current requirements; administer and interpret no-touch digital thermometer readings.
- Ensure entrants wear a mask or face covering and provide one to those who do not have one.
- Confirm patients' destinations and direct them to the appropriate department; confirm permitted visitors in coordination with Welcome Desk staff.
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area and entry vestibule, monitor screening supplies, and report supply needs.
- Clean returned wheelchairs before they are reused.
- Perform other assigned duties, including projects and tasks that can be performed at the work station.
Benefits
- Competitive health and dental insurance options
- Flexible paid time off
- Retirement plan with immediate vesting and employer match
- Discounted membership to the fitness facility
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employer-provided life and disability insurance
- Free parking at the facility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
