Covenant Health

CNA

Knoxville, TN, USPosted 5 days ago

Job Description

Overview: Certified Nursing Assistant, Labor and DeliveryFull Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Night Shift Fort Sanders Regional Overview: Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a 444-bed hospital recognized for pairing clinical expertise with advanced medical technology to deliver exceptional care. As a Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center, we provide leading-edge treatment for stroke recovery. Our facility also offers specialized services in bariatric surgery, robotic surgery, minimally invasive spine procedures, and advanced orthopedic care.

Fort Sanders Regional is part of Covenant Health, East Tennessee’s largest nonprofit health system and a Becker’s “Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare.” Covenant Health includes nine hospitals and nearly 150 service locations, offering employees a comprehensive benefits package with tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, certification bonuses, and leadership development programs. 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 stan...

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