First Shift-Med Tech / Caregiver

NHC Careers • Charleston, SC

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About The Position

The Med Tech/CNA provides direct and indirect patient care activities under the direction of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse. The role assists residents with activities of daily living and personal care, provides comfort, and helps maintain a safe and clean environment for an assigned group of residents.

The position includes supporting admissions, transfers, and discharges; providing morning and evening care; assisting with general nursing care and mobility; taking and recording vital signs and other measurements; and supporting residents’ participation in social activities. The employee follows center and nursing department policies, uses universal precautions, protects confidential patient information, and follows safe lifting and turning practices.

The Palmettos of Charleston is part of National HealthCare Corporation (NHC), which provides extended-care services through an interdisciplinary approach focused on patient well-being and independence.

Requirements

• Must be a certified nursing assistant or currently enrolled in a nurse aide training program.
• Attend assigned in-service programs to learn procedures, develop skills, and meet state requirements.
• Ability to meet the position’s performance requirements.
• Sensitivity to patients’ physical and psychosocial needs.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to chart accurately in the Patient Care Record or a similar form.
• Pleasant and cheerful personality; tactful and courteous approach with patients and visitors.
• Treat all patient information as confidential.
• Adhere to the center’s dress code as directed by policy.

Responsibilities

• Understand and practice universal precautions with all patients.
• Complete assigned tasks and procedures, or report incomplete tasks to the charge nurse.
• Assist with preparation for patient admissions and accompany patients during admission, transfer, and discharge procedures.
• Provide post-mortem care.
• Provide morning care, including bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, back care, dressing, changing bed linen, cleaning bedside surfaces, and straightening rooms.
• Provide evening care, including washing hands and face as needed, oral hygiene, special skin care, refreshing linen, cleaning overbed tables, and straightening rooms.
• Provide general nursing care, including positioning, lifting and turning patients, using special equipment, assisting with bedpans, urinals, or commodes, and ambulating patients with a gait belt.
• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake and output measurements.
• Follow the policies and procedures of the center and Department of Nursing.
• Participate in unit socialization activities and assist patients in attending activities.
• Turn and position patients as ordered or needed, ensuring rough surfaces are not in direct contact with the body.
• Use proper and safe mechanics and available resources when lifting and turning patients.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed