CNA-NH

Covenant Health•Tazewell, TN

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the nursing home provides direct resident care and performs tasks that assist LPNs and RNs. Under the supervision of the charge nurse, the CNA provides hands-on care, assistance with activities of daily living, and specified technical tasks for a group of residents. CNA practice standards do not allow invasive procedures or application of topical medications.

Requirements

CNA licensure from the State of Tennessee is required upon hire. Out-of-state hires must have a Tennessee CNA license in process, as reflected on the state website, upon hire.
CPR is required.
Must possess excellent interpersonal skills.
Must be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computations.
Must have an understanding and knowledge of resident care.
Education must be sufficient to meet the standards for the required license and/or certification; no minimum education level is specified.

Responsibilities

Follow established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, and safety standards.
Take and record residents’ temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
Encourage residents to turn, cough, breathe deeply, and use incentive spirometry as specified by the plan of care.
Ambulate residents; assist them in and out of bed and into wheelchairs; and transport them when necessary.
Attend to residents’ nutritional needs, including distributing meal trays, feeding, and filling and passing out water pitchers.
Provide morning or evening care, including bed baths, oral hygiene, hair combing, back care, dressing, changing bed linen, cleaning bedside surfaces, straightening rooms, and other supportive care as needed.
Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins; record intake and output; and change disposable briefs.
Help maintain a safe environment, including reporting equipment that is out of order and appropriately handling linen and storing supplies.
Provide general care, including positioning, lifting, and turning residents; assisting with bedpans, urinals, or commodes; and applying or removing TED hose stockings and sequential compression devices.
Empty and clean ostomy bags according to procedure.
Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens as ordered.
Perform range-of-motion tasks and assist with ambulatory devices as specified by residents’ plans of care.
Perform accuchecks after required on-the-job training.
Promptly answer resident call lights and respond to resident requests.
Report significant changes in residents’ conditions to an LPN or RN.
Maintain clean and orderly resident and work environments.
Document and maintain resident records as appropriate.
Gather equipment for oxygen setup and check oxygen connections and proper placement.
Check that equipment at residents’ bedsides is functioning properly.
Ambulate residents who are using oxygen.
Set up suction equipment and check that it functions properly.
Demonstrate knowledge and competency in meeting the age-specific needs of the population served.
Demonstrate the ability to perform skills on the CNA checklist.
Participate in the plan of nursing care to meet residents’ physical, emotional, socioeconomic, and spiritual needs.
Help maintain a safe environment for residents, including reporting equipment problems, suspected abuse, mistreatment or neglect, and suspected criminal activity to appropriate managerial staff.
Complete required annual education assignments, work toward goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
Perform other duties as assigned, within the scope of practice.