CNA
About The Position
Bethany Village is seeking caring and dependable Certified Nursing Assistants to join its skilled nursing team. CNAs assist residents with personal care, activities of daily living, meals, mobility, and their overall comfort and wellbeing. The position focuses on respectful, quality care for seniors in a long-term care setting, including direct resident care, monitoring and reporting changes in condition, assisting with treatments, and helping maintain a safe and supportive environment for residents and families. CNAs provide care or assistance with activities of daily living as prescribed in each resident’s plan of care. They provide direct resident care during admission, personal hygiene, and treatment interventions within the limits of their authority.
Requirements
- CNA certification.
- Ability to read, speak, and write English.
- Previous long-term care experience is helpful.
- A genuine interest in geriatric residents is required.
- Ability to communicate with co-workers, residents, and residents’ families.
- Dependability, punctuality, tact, patience, and a desire to work with geriatric residents.
- Remain resident-focused while acting as a pleasant professional.
Nice To Haves
- High school education or GED.
- Prior experience working with residents with dementia.
- Task-centeredness and a pleasant demeanor.
Responsibilities
- Bathe residents and assist with personal hygiene, including bed baths, tub baths, showers, oral hygiene, and care of hair and fingernails.
- Prepare residents for meals, feed them as required, and provide nourishments and fresh water when indicated.
- Assist residents with toileting and cleaning, including transfers on and off commodes or toilets.
- Monitor residents, recognize adverse symptoms and reactions, and report them.
- Check and record blood pressure, temperature, respiration, intake and output, and weight.
- Change linen on occupied and unoccupied beds and tidy residents’ rooms.
- Respond to call lights, determine residents’ needs, and report unusual changes in status.
- Assist with moving and lifting residents in and out of bed and walk residents for exercise.
- Administer treatments as directed, such as enemas, compresses, and dressings, and collect ordered stool, urine, and sputum specimens.
- Assist with orienting and training new employees.
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as cleaning shower, utility, and treatment rooms.
- Make beds properly within the expected time frame.
- Maintain cordial relationships with residents and their families.
- Perform other duties outlined in the organization or department policy and procedure manual, or as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
