CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant (PRN***Dayshift and Evening shift)

Position Summary

The Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.) is responsible for providing quality routine daily nursing care to residents according to the residents’ care plan and under the direction/delegation of the LPN or RN. The C.N.A. will effectively interact with residents, family and other health team members while maintaining all standards of professional nursing.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides individualized attention, which encourages each resident’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental and psychosocial well-being.
• Attends to the individual needs of residents, which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements.
• Observes residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly reports these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse using established procedures, policies, guidelines and standards. Including checking vital signs, weighing residents, applying creams/ointments and collecting specimens.
• Assists with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home on admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
• Completes all required resident charting every shift.
• Works collaboratively with other members of the health care team in coordination of the resident’s care.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Competencies:
• Customer/Client Focus
• Ethical Conduct
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
• Stress Management/Composure
• Teamwork Orientation
• Technical Capacity

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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