Cna Jobs in San Jose, AZ

About The Position

Requirements

• Licensed Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with state laws.
• At least an 8th-grade education.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
• Ability to deal tactfully with residents, personnel, family members, visitors, government agencies, and the public.
• Ability and willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel and to handle difficult residents with patience, tact, cheerfulness, and enthusiasm.
• Willingness to seek out new methods and principles and incorporate them into nursing practices.
• Ability to communicate information about a resident’s condition.
• Must not pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others in the workplace.
• Ability to move intermittently throughout the workday and cope with mental and emotional stress.
• Ability to see and hear adequately, with prosthetics if needed, to perform the position’s requirements.
• Ability to function independently and demonstrate flexibility, personal integrity, and effective working relationships.
• Must meet facility general health requirements, including medical and physical examination.
• Ability to work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and sometimes hostile people.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds and, with assistance, lift up to 100 pounds; occasional pushing of carts and wheelchairs.
• May need to assist in evacuating residents during emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Identify residents before treatments and meals when necessary, document care and observations, and promptly report changes in condition, accidents, incidents, complaints, and grievances.
• Prepare rooms for resident arrivals; greet and escort residents; assist with comfort, belongings, transfers, discharges, and transportation.
• Follow work assignments and facility policies, cooperate with personnel, maintain a calm and positive atmosphere, and notify the facility of lateness or absence.
• Participate in nursing reports and provide daily personal care, including oral hygiene, bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, nail care, linen changes, and keeping residents clean and dry.
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions, maintain intake and output records, collect specimens, and prepare residents for tests, examinations, activities, and appointments.
• Lift, turn, move, position, and transport residents; assist with walking and perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Provide instructed treatments and care, including dressings, compresses, eye and ear care, enemas, catheter and perineal care, range-of-motion exercises, diabetic urine testing, and physical or respiratory therapy.
• Observe residents and report skin breakdown, injuries, changes, and other concerns; measure and record weight, height, temperature, pulse, respirations, and other data as instructed.
• Answer calls promptly, check residents routinely, assist with care of dying residents, provide post-mortem care as instructed, and report medications found in residents’ rooms or possessions.
• Prepare residents for meals, serve trays and snacks, assist with feeding, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, and provide after-meal care.
• Attend required training, orientation, and in-service programs, including OSHA, CDC, advance directive, and infection-control training.
• Follow safety, sanitation, restraint, isolation, handwashing, and personal protective equipment procedures; maintain clean and safe resident areas and equipment; report hazards, defective equipment, and safety violations.
• Review care plans daily, report changes for care-plan updates, and ensure documentation reflects that the care plan is followed.
• Protect resident confidentiality, provide care with dignity and respect and in privacy, honor refusals of treatment, and report abuse allegations or misappropriation of property.
• Use equipment only when trained, operate it safely, avoid waste, and report equipment and supply needs.