CNA/Medaide

Brookridge A Thrive More Community • Winston-Salem, NC

18d • Onsite

About The Position

Brookridge, a ThriveMore of NC Community located in Winston Salem, NC is seeking a qualified full-time C.N.A/Medaide to join our team. Come join a team that is dedicated to making sure our residents receive first-rate continuum of care and services tailored to fit their needs.

Requirements

• Work history in caring for older adults preferred.
• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Completed high school or GED equivalent.
• Must be C.N.A Certified and MedAide Certified, in good standing with the state of North Carolina and can be found on the NC Nurse Aide Registry.
• Must be able to use the English language to satisfy the communications and record keeping requirements involved in the performance of this job position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must maintain neat, well-groomed appearance adhering to dress code of the facility.
• Must satisfy all established licensing and certification requirements applicable to this job position.
• Must be able to safely perform all essential job functions without harm to self or others with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must comply with facility's drug testing and substance abuse program and policies.
• The ability to frequently transfer or assist a resident to or from beds, chairs, toilets, tubs and showers. This requires the ability to push, pull, and lift from 25-75 pounds unassisted.
• Frequently push/pull residents weighing 80-300 pounds in wheelchairs.
• The ability to frequently use all of the equipment listed below, as well as thermometers, blood pressure equipment, a writing instrument, safety pins, buttons, snaps, buckles and tie strings.
• Must be able to frequently move about in tight spaces and between objects, equipment and furniture, and to accurately manipulate wheelchairs and medicine carts through doorways, move linen carts, etc.
• Constant walking and standing is required, up to 90% of eight-hour days, to provide resident care and assistance.
• Able to frequently stoop, twist, bend, squat, kneel, and climb stairs to perform essential job functions.
• Reaching overhead is frequently required to obtain linens and stock from shelves ranging from floor to six feet, and to remove or replace resident items on closet shelves.
• Handling, feeling, fingering, and grasping is frequently required for detecting pulse, using resident care items, and providing tactical stimulation to residents.
• The frequent ability to visually identify a resident within a reasonable distance, to focus and read a thermometer, blood pressure gauge and similar equipment, and to identify colors for warning lights, signs, and labels.
• Must have the ability to frequently receive verbal instructions and converse with residents, coworkers, and visitors.
• Must also be able to respond to audible emergency signals, alarms, call light indicators and be able to answer a caller on the phone.
• Must be able to frequently concentrate on moderate details with frequent interruptions.
• Attention span necessary to attend to a task/function for 10-25 minutes at a time related to nurse assistant duties.
• Must be able to remember multiple tasks and assignments over the course of an 8-hour shift.
• Ability to understand and frequently carry out the verbal and written instructions of physicians and other health care professionals concerning the care and treatment of residents.
• Able to remember and enact emergency procedures and lost resident procedures.
• Comprehension of in-service materials and principles as required to understand and apply in practice.

Responsibilities

• Provides a variety of personal care services to meet the care needs of residents.
• Assists each resident in maintaining his/her personal dignity and control of his/her life, consistent with the facility's policies and programs, and the rules and regulations of regulatory agencies of the federal, state, and local governments.
• Provides, or assists resident with personal care needs, including: bathing, dressing and undressing, eating, ambulation, oral care, hair and nail care, elimination needs, shaving, application of make-up.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure according to instructions.
• Observes and reports immediately any physical and/or behavioral changes in resident to Assisted Living Coordinator.
• Administer medications and treatments to residents according to doctor's orders, at times specified, and charting same immediately after medications and/or treatment.
• Assist residents with feeding as needed in dining room, or take tray of food to his/her room and assist him/her when he/she is unable to come to the dining room.
• Maintain a neat and orderly medicine cart and medicine room.
• Coordinate daily orders of drugs and related medical supplies with Assisted Living Coordinator.
• Transfers orders from Physician Order Form to MAR's and checks monthly MAR for accuracy.
• Assists residents to participate in individual and/or group activities planned and carried out in or outside the Home.
• Uses appropriate techniques to assure infection control; this includes good handwashing techniques and adherence to other infection control practices.
• Follows all safety, security, infection control, universal precautions, and hazardous materials policies and procedures.
• Performs all tasks to assure resident personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property.
• Knows and ensures that all resident rights are maintained at all times.
• Reports any violations or suspected deviations according to facility property.
• Uses appropriate and safe body mechanics techniques, and all appropriate assistant devices, when lifting and/or transferring residents or supplies.
• Documents in the nursing assistant notes the care and treatment provided to the resident and the resident’s response or lack of response to care provided.
• Maintains confidentiality of all resident care information.
• Works tactfully and cooperatively with resident, families, visitors, and other staff throughout the facility.
• Changes work schedule or works overtime on occasion to meet the needs of the facility.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings, care planning, in-service sessions as scheduled.
• Knows and follows existing lines of communication and authority.
• Maintains a working knowledge of personnel policies and other information contained in the Employee Handbook.
• Assists other staff members as needed within the limits of training and certification.
• Signs all Medical Administration Records and daily report sheets at the time the service is given.
• Keep all records up to date and signed.
• Assist with housekeeping items such as laundry, etc... and the cleaning of equipment.
• Assist with "making of the beds" for residents.
• Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• Company paid Life Insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Short & Long Term Disability
• 403 (B) Retirement Plan with company matching funds after two years of full-time employment
• Direct Deposit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED