Cna Jobs in Milwaukee, NC

About The Position

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age to apply.
• High school education or equivalent.
• Current active CNA license.

Responsibilities

• Perform assigned day-to-day nursing assistant functions and specific tasks in accordance with work assignments and established nursing procedures.
• Assist in other areas when required and perform other duties as assigned.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report at the start of duty.
• Observe and report resident conditions and information about procedures, changes, incidents, or unusual findings to nursing staff or an appropriate supervisor.
• Learn residents’ daily needs and preferences, and review care plans daily for changes to care routines.
• Record data such as food and fluid intake, eating-habit changes, temperatures, pulse, respirations, and bowel records using computers, kiosks, flow sheets, notes, or charts.
• Help maintain a physical, social, and psychological environment conducive to residents’ welfare and best interests.
• Provide direct resident care, including dental care, dressing and undressing, hair and nail care, shaving, bowel and bladder care, catheter care, repositioning, transportation, bathing, specimen collection, and instructed special treatments.
• Provide nursing care in privacy and respond to call lights in a timely manner.
• Keep residents clean and dry, changing gowns, clothing, and linens when wet or soiled; make occupied and unoccupied beds and keep linens smooth to avoid wrinkles beneath residents.
• Cooperate with facility and interdepartmental personnel to maintain nursing services that meet residents’ needs.
• Help prepare residents’ rooms for their arrival, including making beds and placing name tags, and store residents’ clothing as instructed.
• Encourage residents to develop independence in activities of daily living and assist them with walking, with or without self-help devices, as instructed.
• Provide daily range-of-motion exercises and perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Prepare residents for meals, including assisting with bathroom visits, handwashing, grooming, positioning, and transportation to and from the dining area.
• Assist with feeding and serve food trays, between-meal snacks, and bedtime snacks.
• Keep water pitchers clean, filled with fresh water, and within residents’ reach.
• Provide after-meal care, including removing trays, cleaning residents, assisting with bathroom visits, brushing teeth, and cleaning dentures.
• Check rooms for food items and ensure food is properly stored and unauthorized food items are addressed.