CNA

Countryside Post Acute • Buchanan, GA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The CNA provides assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with each resident’s assessment and care plan, facility policies and procedures, and supervisor direction. The role includes documenting care, observing and reporting changes in residents’ conditions, assisting with admissions, transfers, and discharges, and supporting residents’ personal care, mobility, nutrition, and safety needs.

The CNA performs routine and special nursing care tasks as instructed, including personal hygiene, toileting, positioning, vital signs, specimen collection, treatments, restorative exercises, and assistance with medical examinations and activities. The CNA also supports mealtimes, maintains residents’ rooms and care equipment, follows infection-control and safety practices, protects resident rights and confidentiality, and participates in required training and continuing education.

The position works throughout the nursing service area and involves frequent movement and interruptions, interaction with residents, families, visitors, and personnel, and possible exposure to infectious materials, hazardous chemicals, and other workplace hazards. Work may extend beyond normal working hours and include weekends, holidays, temporary coverage in other positions, or emergency call-back. Physical requirements include lifting up to 10 pounds independently and lifting up to 100 pounds with assistance, occasional pushing of carts and wheelchairs, and possible assistance with emergency evacuations.

Requirements

• Licensed Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with state laws.
• At least an 8th-grade education.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
• Ability to deal tactfully with residents, personnel, family members, visitors, government agencies, and the public.
• Ability and willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel and to handle difficult residents with patience, tact, cheerfulness, and enthusiasm.
• Willingness to seek out new methods and principles and incorporate them into nursing practices.
• Ability to communicate information about a resident’s condition.
• Must not pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others in the workplace.
• Ability to move intermittently throughout the workday and cope with mental and emotional stress.
• Ability to see and hear adequately, with prosthetics if needed, to perform the position’s requirements.
• Ability to function independently and demonstrate flexibility, personal integrity, and effective working relationships.
• Must meet facility general health requirements, including medical and physical examination.
• Ability to work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and sometimes hostile people.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds and, with assistance, lift up to 100 pounds; occasional pushing of carts and wheelchairs.
• May need to assist in evacuating residents during emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Identify residents before treatments and meals when necessary, document care and observations, and promptly report changes in condition, accidents, incidents, complaints, and grievances.
• Prepare rooms for resident arrivals; greet and escort residents; assist with comfort, belongings, transfers, discharges, and transportation.
• Follow work assignments and facility policies, cooperate with personnel, maintain a calm and positive atmosphere, and notify the facility of lateness or absence.
• Participate in nursing reports and provide daily personal care, including oral hygiene, bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, nail care, linen changes, and keeping residents clean and dry.
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions, maintain intake and output records, collect specimens, and prepare residents for tests, examinations, activities, and appointments.
• Lift, turn, move, position, and transport residents; assist with walking and perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Provide instructed treatments and care, including dressings, compresses, eye and ear care, enemas, catheter and perineal care, range-of-motion exercises, diabetic urine testing, and physical or respiratory therapy.
• Observe residents and report skin breakdown, injuries, changes, and other concerns; measure and record weight, height, temperature, pulse, respirations, and other data as instructed.
• Answer calls promptly, check residents routinely, assist with care of dying residents, provide post-mortem care as instructed, and report medications found in residents’ rooms or possessions.
• Prepare residents for meals, serve trays and snacks, assist with feeding, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, and provide after-meal care.
• Attend required training, orientation, and in-service programs, including OSHA, CDC, advance directive, and infection-control training.
• Follow safety, sanitation, restraint, isolation, handwashing, and personal protective equipment procedures; maintain clean and safe resident areas and equipment; report hazards, defective equipment, and safety violations.
• Review care plans daily, report changes for care-plan updates, and ensure documentation reflects that the care plan is followed.
• Protect resident confidentiality, provide care with dignity and respect and in privacy, honor refusals of treatment, and report abuse allegations or misappropriation of property.
• Use equipment only when trained, operate it safely, avoid waste, and report equipment and supply needs.

What This Job Offers

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