Cna Jobs in Chula Vista, TX

About The Position

Requirements

• Successfully completed a State-approved Certified Nursing Assistant program.
• Able to read, write, and understand the English language.
• Attend a minimum of 18 hours of Continuing Education programs provided by the Center to maintain certification.
• A high school education or high school equivalency diploma is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform duties using established methods and techniques and in accordance with recognized standards.
• Provide customer-care services within the limits of delegated tasks.
• Assist the nurse with customer admissions, discharges, and transfers; treatments; and care of customers’ personal belongings.
• Bathe customers in bed, in a tub, or in a shower; comb hair; clean and cut fingernails; and give shampoos.
• Position customers in correct body alignment in and out of bed and apply safety measures under the Nurse’s direction.
• Assist customers in and out of bed and with walking; transport them throughout the Center by wheelchair, Geri-chair, or stretcher; and accompany them to outside appointments as needed.
• Coordinate scheduling for customers requiring O.T., P.T., or S.T. so they are available for therapy on time, and assist with transportation to the rehabilitation area.
• Participate in formulating and following customers’ Nursing Care Plans.
• Take and record weights, blood pressures, temperatures, pulse, and respiration in the electronic medical record.
• Give skin care treatments and apply simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages under the Licensed Nurse’s direction.
• Feed customers, assist with meals, provide between-meal nourishment, and provide fresh ice and water at the bedside.
• Answer customers’ call lights or bells, deliver messages, administer bedpans and urinals, and clean areas soiled by spills or accidents caused by customers.
• Perform isolation care as needed for a customer’s condition.
• Report changes in customers’ conditions, family concerns, and customer complaints to a Nurse and/or Supervisor.
• Collect and bag soiled linen and deliver it to the dirty linen area.
• Clean and sterilize customer equipment.
• Complete records of customers’ oral intake and output.