CNA

PACS•Boca Raton, FL

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant provides assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with each resident’s assessment and care plan and as directed by supervisors. The role supports residents’ personal care, comfort, safety, nutrition, mobility, and daily activities; observes and reports changes in residents’ conditions; and maintains accurate records and confidentiality. The CNA follows facility policies and procedures, performs only trained and authorized care procedures, and works cooperatively with nursing and other facility personnel. The position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Must possess at least a 10th-grade education.
Must be a licensed Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with state laws.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to present information effectively and respond to questions from managers and employees.
Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems involving a variety of concrete variables where limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or scheduled instructions.
Ability to perform the stated physical demands, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.

Nice To Haves

CPR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify residents before administering treatments or serving meals when necessary.
Use only facility-authorized abbreviations when recording information and make informative, descriptive entries in flow sheets, notes, and charts.
Promptly report changes in residents’ conditions, accidents and incidents, complaints and grievances, injuries of unknown source, pressure areas or skin breakdown, suspected abuse or misappropriation, unauthorized information disclosures or system access attempts, and residents who leave or go missing from the facility.
Maintain confidentiality of resident care information, including protected health information, and report suspected or known violations.
Perform only nursing care procedures and use only equipment for which the CNA has been trained; report defective equipment.
Prepare rooms for incoming residents; greet and escort residents; introduce them to roommates and appropriate people; make them comfortable; inventory and mark possessions; store clothing; and assist with packing, room transfers, discharge, and vehicle loading or unloading.
Help create a warm, calm, and positive environment for residents.
Meet with shift nursing personnel to help identify and address problems or improve services; participate in and receive nursing reports as instructed.
Follow blood and body fluid exposure policies and report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, or hazardous chemicals.
Make beds and add covers as requested.
Measure and record residents’ temperatures, pulses, and respirations, and weigh and measure residents, as instructed.
Frequently check residents who cannot call for help, answer calls promptly, and routinely check that personal care needs are met according to residents’ wishes.
Assist residents with food arrangements, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, keep water pitchers clean and filled, and within reach, and provide after-meal care.
Assist with dental and mouth care, bathing, hair care, dressing and undressing, and changing wet or soiled clothing and linens.
Assist residents in preparing for medical tests and physical examinations.
Lift, turn, move, position, and transport residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, and lifts.
Perform restorative, rehabilitative, and special treatments as instructed.
Observe disoriented and comatose residents and record and report data as instructed.
Honor residents’ refusals of treatment and report those requests to a supervisor.
Follow work assignments and schedules, notify the facility when late or absent, and cooperate with other departments and facility personnel to maintain nursing services.
Assist with resident evacuation during emergencies when necessary.