CNA-TCU

Overview: Certified Nursing Assistant, Transitional Care UnitFull Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Day 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 LPNs and RNs. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s and specified technical tasks for a group of residents under the supervision of the charge nurse. CNA’s are not allowed, by practice standards, to perform any invasive procedure or any application of topical medications. Responsibilities: * Follows established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program and safety standards. * Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements. * Encourage residents to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care. * Ambulate and assist residents in and out of bed, and into wheelchairs and transport when necessary. * Attends to nutritional needs of residents which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers. * Provides morni...