CNA

Overview: Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical UnitFull Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift Morristown-Hamblen Overview: Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System is a 170-bed hospital serving an eight-county region in East Tennessee’s Lakeway Area. The facility includes more than 20 emergency suites, advanced laboratories, radiology, and therapy services, and a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence for mammograms, biopsies, and nurse navigation. The Women’s Center features six modern labor and delivery suites and a secure nursery for newborn care. With state-of-the-art technology and a dedicated team, Morristown-Hamblen provides exceptional, patient-focused care close to home. To meet the needs of our growing community, we continue to develop services, attract new physicians, and embrace innovation, all to promote an improved quality of life. 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, uri...