CNA In-patient Hospice House
About The Position
As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will provide essential patient support under RN direction, contributing to patient comfort, safety, and recovery. You will deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and contribute to the patient’s plan of care as a member of the interdisciplinary team, while upholding high standards of conduct and patient well-being. The role includes providing personal care and hygiene, physical comfort, and other primary care needs according to your skills, scope of practice, and patient acuity. You will prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations. You will perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within your scope of practice; observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN; obtain, label, and transport samples and blood products; and provide relevant patient information to nursing staff for the interdisciplinary plan of care.
Requirements
- Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program upon hire, or military medical specialty training upon hire.
- Certified Nursing Assistant certification in Washington upon hire.
- Basic Life Support - CPR upon hire.
- Washington Food Handler Permit upon hire.
Nice To Haves
- Six months of related work experience.
- Experience in a hospital setting.
Responsibilities
- Provide patient personal care and hygiene, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination.
- Provide additional care to meet assigned patients’ personal primary needs and comfort, within skill, ability, scope-of-practice limitations, and patient acuity.
- Prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for specific procedures and examinations.
- Perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within scope of practice.
- Observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN.
- Obtain labels and transport samples such as urine, stool, and sputum specimens, as well as blood products.
- Provide patient information to nursing staff for inclusion in the interdisciplinary plan of care.
- Document relevant patient data in accordance with work unit standards.
- Assist with patient transport and contribute to the patient’s plan of care as part of the interdisciplinary team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
