CNA / Nurse Assistant - LTC

Carenest Health Services • Newark, NY

2d

About The Position

The CNA / Nurse Assistant provides long-term care (LTC) support in a 35-bed facility with an average daily census of 35. Staffing ratios are 1:8 on days, 1:17 on nights, and 1:10 on weekends. The role includes floating as required by facility needs and weekend coverage every other weekend. Orientation is held during the day during the employee’s first week.

Fingerprint forms must be submitted within 48 hours of signing. Local candidates are not accepted; candidates must live more than 50 miles away. First-time travelers are accepted.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience.
• Long-term care (LTC) experience and the listed patient-care skills.
• Must submit fingerprint forms within 48 hours of signing.
• Must live more than 50 miles from the facility; local candidates are not accepted.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with ambulation, feeding, turning, and repositioning.
• Provide bathing, hygiene, bed baths, showers, shampooing, foot care, mouth care, perineal care, shaving, and skin care.
• Change occupied and unoccupied bed linens and provide pressure injury prevention, including heel and elbow protection.
• Provide incontinence care and routine care for indwelling and external catheters.
• Use bedpans, urinals, bedside commodes, antiembolic stockings, oxygen tanks, pulse oximetry, specialty beds, stretchers, transfer belts, sliding boards, wheelchairs, and Hoyer lifts as needed.
• Respond to call lights and clean equipment.
• Don and remove PPE and follow isolation precautions.
• Measure and record drain output, weight, vital signs, dietary intake, calorie counts, and urine output; collect urine and stool specimens, label them, and transport them.
• Obtain blood pressure, including orthostatic measurements, respirations, radial pulse, and temperature using oral, rectal, axillary, or tympanic methods.
• Follow fluid restrictions, NPO status, limb restrictions, and normal adult and pediatric vital-sign parameters.
• Perform passive range-of-motion activities and safe patient transfers using proper lifting and pulling body mechanics.
• Recognize cardiac arrest and report changes in patient condition.
• Stock supplies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed