Optical Health Solutions
Certified Nursing Assistant
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Job Description
Job Summary
As a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), you’ll provide hands-on, compassionate patient care under the direction of licensed nursing staff. You’ll help patients with daily activities, monitor and report changes in condition, and support safe, respectful care across settings such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, assisted living, and home care. Your impact: By delivering attentive daily care and promptly sharing observations, you help patients feel supported and help care teams respond to their needs.
Responsibilities
- Assist with bathing, dressing, grooming, meals, mobility, and other activities of daily living.
- Measure and document vital signs; report changes promptly and accurately.
- Support safe transfers and repositioning using approved patient transfer methods, Hoyer lifts, and safe lifting practices.
- Provide catheter care and assist with medication administration only as permitted by role and applicable requirements.
- Maintain patient confidentiality, follow HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requirements and aseptic technique, and complete clear medical documentation in electronic health records (EHRs).
Qualifications
- Required: Current CNA certification where applicable; basic life support (BLS) or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) credentials as required by the employer or jurisdiction.
- Required: Patient care skills, caregiver communication, medical terminology, and safe manual handling; ability to perform essential physical duties, including lifting, with appropriate assistance.
- Preferred: Experience in senior care, geriatrics, long-term or post-acute care, assisted living, memory care, Alzheimer’s or dementia care, hospice, home and community care, pediatrics, or care for individuals with disabilities.
- Preferred: Exposure to hospital, acute, critical, medical-surgical, emergency, intensive care unit (ICU), pediatric ICU (PICU), operating room (OR), trauma, infectious disease, outpatient, urgent care, clinic, or medical office settings.
- Familiarity with Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, other electronic medical record (EMR) systems, phlebotomy, and medical records is helpful.
Pay: $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Experience
* CNA: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
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