CNA

Overview: Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical UnitPRN/OCC, Variable Hours and Shifts LeConte Medical Center Overview: LeConte Medical Center is a part of Covenant Health, our region’s top-performing healthcare network and is a 79-bed community hospital located in the heart of Sevier County. We’re a full-service, not-for-profit hospital delivering modern medicine and compassionate care to the growing Sevier County community. LeConte offers a full range of health services, including top-tier specialists, a modern ER, and a beautiful Women’s Center. Learn more about our amazing facility at https://www.lecontemedicalcenter.com/about-leconte-medical-center/.

Position Summary

Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist registered nurses. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader. May also function as a sitter for patients in need of full-time supervision in the hospital. Responsibilities: * Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements. * Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care. * Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary. * Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers, * Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed. * Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output. * Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate ha...