CNA

PACS

8d • $19 - $22

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 admission or transfer needs, while observing and reporting changes in residents’ conditions and maintaining accurate records and confidentiality.

The position works with nursing and other facility personnel to maintain quality nursing services and a calm, welcoming environment. The employee must perform only procedures and use equipment for which they have been trained, follow facility policies and schedules, and report incidents, complaints, exposures, and suspected safety or privacy violations through the proper channels. This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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.
• 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 limited standardization and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or scheduled instructions.
• Ability to meet the role’s physical demands, including occasionally lifting or moving up to 25 pounds and regularly sitting, standing, walking, talking, reading, or hearing.

Nice To Haves

• CPR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify residents before providing treatments or meals, when necessary.
• Use only facility-authorized abbreviations and record information accurately and descriptively in flow sheets, notes, and charts.
• Report changes in residents’ conditions, accidents, incidents, complaints, grievances, injuries of unknown source, skin breakdown, missing residents, equipment defects, occupational exposures, and suspected abuse or misappropriation as instructed.
• Protect residents’ confidential information and report suspected or known unauthorized disclosures or attempts to access facility information systems.
• Perform only nursing care procedures and use only equipment for which the employee has been trained.
• Prepare rooms for incoming residents; greet and escort residents, introduce them to roommates and personnel as appropriate, and help them feel comfortable.
• Inventory, mark, and store residents’ possessions and clothing; assist with packing and transport during room transfers or discharge, including vehicle loading and unloading as necessary.
• Maintain a warm, personally attentive, positive, and calm environment.
• Participate in nursing reports and regularly scheduled meetings with shift nursing personnel to help identify and address problems and improve services.
• Follow policies concerning exposure to blood and body fluids and other facility procedures and work assignments.
• Make beds and add covers as requested; measure and record residents’ temperatures, pulses, respirations, weights, and measurements as instructed.
• Frequently check residents who cannot call for help, respond promptly to calls, and routinely ensure personal care needs are met in accordance with residents’ wishes.
• Assist residents with food arrangements, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, keep water pitchers clean and filled, and perform after-meal care.
• Assist residents with dental and mouth care, bathing, grooming, dressing, and changing wet or soiled clothing and linens.
• Prepare residents for medical tests and physical examinations; assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents using 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 such requests to a supervisor.
• Notify the facility when late or absent and cooperate with other facility departments to maintain nursing services.
• Assist with resident evacuation during emergency situations when necessary.

What This Job Offers

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