Full-Time CNA

PACS•Lexington, KY

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, facility policies and procedures, and supervisor directions. The role supports resident comfort and safety, assists with personal care and daily activities, observes residents’ conditions, and reports concerns to nursing supervisors. The CNA maintains accurate and confidential resident records and helps foster a calm, warm, and positive environment.

Requirements

At least a 10th-grade education.
Current license as a Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with state law.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems, handle situations with limited standardization, and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including occasionally lifting or moving up to 25 pounds and regularly sitting, standing, walking, talking, reading, or hearing.
Ability to use office-related equipment, including a copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.

Nice To Haves

CPR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify residents before treatments and meals as necessary, using the facility’s approved identification methods.
Record information using authorized abbreviations and make informative, descriptive entries in flow sheets, notes, and charts.
Promptly report changes in residents’ conditions, accidents, incidents, complaints, grievances, suspected abuse, property misappropriation, skin breakdown, unknown-source injuries, and missing residents to the appropriate supervisor.
Protect resident health information and report suspected or known unauthorized disclosures or information-system access attempts.
Perform only nursing care procedures and use equipment for which the employee has been trained; report defective equipment.
Prepare rooms for residents; greet and escort residents; introduce them to roommates and facility personnel; help them settle in; inventory, mark, store, pack, and transport their belongings as needed.
Help create a warm, calm, and positive atmosphere, and participate in nursing reports and scheduled discussions about service improvements and problem areas.
Follow assignments, schedules, facility policies, blood and body fluid exposure procedures, and instructions from supervisors; cooperate with other facility personnel and notify the facility of lateness or absence.
Make beds and provide requested bedding; measure and record temperatures, pulses, respirations, weights, and measurements as instructed.
Frequently check residents who cannot call for assistance, answer calls promptly, and routinely ensure residents’ personal care needs are being met.
Assist residents with food arrangements, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, keep water pitchers clean, filled, and accessible, and provide after-meal care.
Assist with dental and mouth care, bathing, grooming, dressing, changing wet or soiled clothing and linens, and preparing residents for medical tests and examinations.
Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents, including in 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 them to a supervisor.
Assist with evacuation of residents during emergency situations when necessary.