Hospice Aide - Certified Nurse Assistant, CNA

Tufts Medicine•Lowell, MA

About The Position

Tufts Medicine Care at Home is a proud member of Tufts Medicine, a health system that is rethinking how academic and community centers, local and national businesses, and technology and service innovators can all work together. So that clinicians can deliver expert care where it’s needed most and so that we can bring wellness back to health care, one person at a time. Job Overview This position is a trained paraprofessional who provides personal care and other incidental care to patients as instructed by and under the supervision of the professional clinician. Provide care to patients in a variety of settings, including patients under home health and hospice plans of care, residing in private homes, assisted livings, skilled nursing facilities and hospice inpatient facilities. Facility Location: Lowell, MA Territory: Massachusetts with a strong need for Lowell Area. Hours: 40 Hours. Full-Time

Requirements

High school degree or equivalent.
Certified Home Health Aide or Licensed Nurse Aide
Valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities

Provides care to patients as instructed in the home health aide or hospice aide care plan.
Provides the level of assistance designated in the plan of care, ranging from supervision and cueing to total care.
Notifies the supervising clinician and or aide supervisor promptly when the patient refuses care or the patient’s care needs change.
Provides patient care including bathing, dressing, grooming, ambulation/mobility, toileting and nutrition/hydration.
Provides bowel and bladder training, catheter care, ostomy care, and adaptive equipment (e.g., raised toilet seat) as designated in aide care plan.
Identifies risks to personal safety (e.g. firearms in the home, oxygen safety) and promptly reports concern to aide supervisor.
Identifies changes in mobility, weakness, sleepiness, and fatigue and reports these changes to the supervising professional clinician.
Identifies physical, mental and functional changes and reports these changes to the supervising professional clinician.
Identifies respiratory concerns, such as a change in breathing pattern, or increased secretions and reports these changes to the supervising professional clinician.