Cna-Nh

Covenant Health•Tazewell, TN

13h

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant is a direct patient caregiver who performs hands-on care, assists residents with activities of daily living, and carries out specified technical tasks under the supervision of the charge nurse and in support of LPNs and RNs. The role serves a group of residents and follows the CNA scope of practice; CNAs may not perform invasive procedures or apply topical medications. The position provides personal, mobility, nutritional, and other supportive care; monitors and records residents’ measurements and intake and output; assists with specified equipment and care tasks; and reports significant changes in residents’ conditions. The CNA helps maintain a safe, clean environment, documents care as appropriate, participates in nursing care planning and quality improvement, and completes required annual education. Other duties may be assigned within the scope of practice.

Requirements

Tennessee CNA licensure 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.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computations.
Understanding and knowledge of resident care.

Responsibilities

Follow established hospital and departmental policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, and safety standards.
Take and record residents’ temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, weight, height, and intake and output measurements.
Encourage residents to turn, cough, breathe deeply, and use incentive spirometry as specified in 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 distributing water pitchers.
Provide morning or evening care, including bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, back care, dressing, changing bed linen, and cleaning and straightening the resident’s surroundings.
Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins, and record intake and output; change disposable briefs.
Assist with positioning, lifting, and turning residents; use of bedpans, urinals, or commodes; and application or removal of 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 and help maintain resident safety, including reporting malfunctioning equipment and suspected abuse, mistreatment, neglect, or criminal activity to appropriate managerial staff.
Document and maintain resident records as appropriate.
Gather equipment for oxygen setup; check oxygen connections and placement; check that bedside equipment functions properly; and ambulate residents with 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 and perform skills on the CNA checklist.
Participate in the nursing care plan to meet residents’ physical, emotional, socioeconomic, and spiritual needs.
Complete required annual education assignments, work toward goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
Perform other assigned duties within the scope of practice.