Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Bridgeway Recovery•Salem, OR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Bridgeway Community Health is seeking a qualified Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to join its Medically Managed Withdrawal (Detox) team. This role is crucial for providing assistant nursing care to individuals in a medical detox setting. The primary focus of the position includes personal care, maintaining client mobility, assisting with nutrition and elimination, supporting the use of assistive devices, ensuring environment and client safety, and performing data gathering, recording, and reporting. The successful candidate will be part of a growing team dedicated to positive client outcomes and working within an agency recognized for its supportive culture and high professional standards.

Requirements

High school diploma
Graduation from an OSBN-approved nursing assistant training program
Current, unencumbered Oregon CNA 1 certificate, prior to appointment
Two (2) years of Certified Nursing Assistant experience or any satisfactory equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience relevant to the position.
Comprehensive knowledge of, and skill in performing, current nursing assistant practice.
Ability to apply nursing assistant knowledge and principles and policies underlying the administration of a nursing assistant service.
Ability to recognize the needs and concerns of individuals in the course of medical treatments.
Ability to maintain confidential records and information.
Ability to accept and abide by supervision received.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Skilled in English usage.
Skill in basic mathematics.
Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers and the public.

Responsibilities

Reviews and compares the bed whiteboard with the safety checklist.
Completes required safety checks hourly throughout the shift and report any concerning behavior or change of condition to nursing staff.
Adds and removes client names with admits discharges and bed changes.
Empties all laundry bins, including those located in the admit office, each dorm bathroom, and all back bathrooms.
Assists clients with nursing staff requests, including obtaining vital signs and providing support with eating, bathing/showering, dressing, transferring, toileting, and other activities of daily living (ADL's).
Announces mealtimes to clients: Monday – Saturday: Breakfast, Soup, Lunch and Dinner; Sunday: Brunch and Dinner.
For brunch, lunch and dinner, write down any meals that need to be saved for clients who choose not to eat and give them to kitchen staff.
Assists nursing staff by gathering clients for the provider upon doctors' arrival and escorting clients to be seen as directed.
Routinely checks client beds and remakes as needed.
Beds must be disinfected and remade after every discharge, when linens are visibly soiled, or upon client request.
Assist housekeeping in maintaining cleanliness, including wiping down tables and chairs as needed.
Washes, dries, folds and properly stores all laundry, including returning towels to bathrooms and placing admit clothing at the end of the client's bed.
Restocks drinking water in the white refrigerator located in the milieu.
Assembles and restocks hygiene packets as needed.
Restocks shower shoes and socks as needed.
Notify Sarah N. via email when supplies are running low.
Assists with other duties as needed, including answering phones, conducting screenings, and supporting client admissions and discharges.
Monitors the nursing station while nursing staff conducts shift reports and email shift notes.
Performs general cleaning as needed, including wiping down milieu and dining room tables and chairs, sweeping floors, and maintaining cleanliness and organization in the laundry room.
Empties all trash bins-including those in the milieu, behind the nurses' station, dining room, ATS office, waiting room, and janitor's closet- into the dumpster.
Maintains client mobility such as transferring, transporting, positioning, turning and lifting.
Assists clients with nutrition and hydration such as assistance with eating and drinking.
Assists clients with the use of a bed pan and urinal and collects specimens.
Assists clients with assistive devices such as caring for dentures, eyeglasses and hearing aids; assisting with wheelchairs, walkers, or crutches; using footboards; assisting with and encouraging the use of self-help devices for eating, grooming and other personal care tasks; and utilizing and assisting clients with devices for transferring, ambulation, and alignment.
Assists nursing staff with tasks associated with gathering, recording and reporting client data such as measuring temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure; measuring height and weight; measuring and recording oral intake; measuring and recording emesis; measuring and recording liquid stool; measuring and recording pulse oximetry; and collecting responses to pain using a facility-approved pain scale.
Charts on all clients seen for medical support.
Attends staff meetings and works as a team member to identify and implement quality of services.
Maintains an organized and clean work environment.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Paid Holidays
Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage
5% employer match 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (Pre & Post-Tax Options)
Corporate Fitness Membership subsidy
Employer-Sponsored Life, Accidental Death, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability Coverage
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan
Health Savings Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts
Internal Growth Opportunities
Additional stipend is available for Spanish/English bilingual employees