CNA 3p-11p Full-Time

HES INC•York Township, PA

3d•$21 - $25•Onsite

About The Position

The CNA provides direct resident care in accordance with each resident’s care plan and applicable instructions and supervision. The role includes assistance with personal hygiene, dressing, meals, mobility, toileting, comfort, and preparation for tests, visits, therapies, and activities. The CNA observes residents, documents required information, reports changes or unusual findings to a supervisor, responds to call lights, and communicates through shift reports. The position also supports resident safety, infection prevention, confidentiality, emergency response, and care for residents in isolation or at end of life. The CNA participates in QAPI activities, trauma-informed care, and compliance and ethics practices, including required training and reporting concerns. Non-essential duties may include assisting with therapy, personal services, clerical work, unit cleaning, and other tasks assigned by a supervisor.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania State Certification for nursing assistant in good standing.
High school graduation or equivalent is preferred.
Previous hospital or nursing-home experience is preferred.
Patience, compassion, a sense of responsibility, and a sincere desire to work with older adults and people who are infirm.
Mental and physical health sufficient to meet the demands of the position.
Ability to communicate with elderly residents and other personnel.
Ability to anticipate the needs and behaviors of geriatric residents while remaining calm and composed.
Ability to maintain the confidentiality of Rest Haven and resident information; professionalism.
Criminal history background clearance under Act 169 and Act 13.
Ability to lift 50 pounds.
Ability to sit, stand, and walk intermittently and to lift, bend, stoop, push, and pull.

Nice To Haves

High school graduate or equivalent.
Previous experience in a hospital or nursing home.

Responsibilities

Provide AM or PM care according to each resident’s care plan and keep current with changes to the plan.
Assist residents with transfers and mobility, including moving between beds, chairs, and other locations.
Provide personal care, including bathing, shampooing, shaving, nail trimming, and personal and dental hygiene.
Dress residents comfortably and appropriately; make beds and maintain clean, orderly resident rooms.
Deliver and remove meal trays, assist residents with meals and feeding, and provide personal care after meals.
Transport residents to meals, activities, and therapies; provide fresh water, ice, and nourishment.
Assist residents with toileting, bedpans, and urinals; keep incontinent residents clean and change linens as needed.
Prepare residents for tests, X-rays, physician visits, therapies, and activities.
Rinse heavily stained resident laundry.
Assist relatives and visitors.
Perform or assist with procedures when properly instructed and supervised, including admissions, transfers, discharges, vital signs, intake and output, specimen collection, changing binders and slings, emptying colostomy bags and drainage bottles, applying hot or cold compresses, and giving sitz baths.
Provide care to residents in isolation and assist with care of dying or deceased residents.
Use safety devices and precautions, maintain appropriate room temperature and humidity, and assist nurses with treatments and examinations.
Use aseptic technique and universal precautions to prevent the spread of disease and infection.
Observe residents’ physical condition, attitude, reactions, appetite, and other changes; report changes or unusual findings to a supervisor.
Chart required information and sign entries; answer call lights and bells promptly; receive and give reports; and assist with alarm rounds at shift change.
Attend in-services, seminars, workshops, and conferences related to the field.
Assist with emergencies and redirect agitated residents as needed.
Keep resident information confidential.
Participate in QAPI efforts by attending training, carrying out assigned responsibilities, following policies and procedures, identifying improvement ideas, communicating outcomes or barriers to leadership, and adapting performance to QAPI initiatives and findings.
Support trauma-informed care by promoting safety, empowerment, and healing and helping prevent residents with past trauma from being re-traumatized.
Participate in annual compliance and ethics training, follow the code of conduct, and report compliance or ethics concerns.
As assigned, assist with physical and occupational therapy; provide reasonable personal services such as reading, writing letters, operating a TV or radio, and running in-house errands; perform nursing-station clerical duties; answer the telephone and intercom; run errands; and assist with unit cleaning, including cleaning wheelchairs and gerichairs.
Perform other duties as directed by a supervisor.