STNA NIGHT Orchards of Alliance

The Orchards • Alliance, OH

10h • Onsite

About The Position

As part of The Orchards team, you can help our residents experience the best service and quality care during their nursing home, assisted living, rehab and independent living stays. This role involves 12-hour shifts. Under the direction of the nursing staff, cares for residents while keeping them safe and comfortable during their activities of daily living by performing the following duties.

Requirements

• Certificate upon completion of an approved nurse's aide certification curriculum.
• Complete annual state mandated training requirements (Regular In-services as well as any external training).
• Certified Nurse Assistant certification.
• Certified Nurse Assistant skills specific to geriatric residents are needed.
• May need additional skills with special-need geriatric residents such as those with dementia, Alzheimer's or those requiring skilled health care.
• Ability to use resident lift equipment.
• Stand or walk throughout the facility.
• Complete duties and provide therapeutic touch.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Balance to: use the telephone or computer, use medical equipment to assess resident vital signs, prepare residents to be lifted, operate the Sit to Stand Maxi/Hoyer lifts, lift or assist a resident out of a chair or bed, feed residents, serve meals, make beds and change linens, dress residents, fold laundry, turn door knobs, reposition chair alarms, assist or perform personal hygiene care for resident (brushing teeth, bathing or showering, drying after bath or shower), manipulate walkers and wheelchairs, assist residents when walking, store clean linens in closets, push residents in wheelchairs, and put away dishes, glasses, etc.
• Stoop, kneel, or crouch during tasks such as bending at a 45-degree angle to lift or re-position a resident in their wheelchair, bending at a 45 - 90 degree angle to awaken and help a resident from bed, bending at a 45 - 90 degree to talk to, feed, cleanse, etc. a bedridden resident, bending at a 45 - 90 degree angle to change residents’ bed linens, bending or kneeling when drying a resident after a shower, stooping or kneeling when pulling on socks, shoes, pants, etc., stooping or kneeling to tie shoes, put on slippers, etc., bending, stooping or kneeling to pick up food, clothing or other items from the floor, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and bending when leading the daily exercise activity, stooping, kneeling, or crouching when communicating with residents.
• Talk or hear on an on-going basis when communicating with various individuals.
• Use senses of taste and smell to ensure that food is tasty and edible and to detect odors within the unit and emanating from the residents or their belongings.
• Occasionally sit at a desk when charting and at a table to feed residents.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds when assisting a resident out of bed or a chair with the aid of lift equipment or assist of two and when transporting residents by wheelchair.
• Occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds when assisting or transporting heavier residents with the aid of lift equipment or the assist of two.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus in situations such as reading and writing reports, recording of vital signs, watching over residents for their safety and monitoring their behavior, keeping hallways and rooms safe, measuring liquids for input and output recording, reading thermometers, assessing residents' skin texture and color, observing resident’s breathing pattern from doorway at evening rounds, dressing a resident or to identify proper adult protection for incontinence as they are color and size coordinated, using devices to check color-coded wander guard bracelets, assisting residents in walking with walker.

Nice To Haves

• Additional skills with special-need geriatric residents such as those with dementia, Alzheimer's or those requiring skilled health care.

Responsibilities

• Teamwork with the following and all other duties and responsibilities assigned.
• Provides care and services to residents as defined by individualized care plans. Care and services include, but are not limited to: ADL assistance, mobility assistance, positioning assistance and feeding assistance.
• Performs random rounds on each resident every two hours, starting upon arrival and finishing just prior to the end of the shift.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Participates in resident activity program.
• Documents care provided to residents using approved documentation method.
• Reports any change in resident condition to the charge nurse immediately.
• Assists with stocking supplies in clean utility rooms.
• Attend meetings and training sessions required for the position

What This Job Offers

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