Certified Nurse Assistant (C.N.A.)

Position Summary:

The Certified Nurse Assistant is responsible for providing personal care to the residents under the supervision of the Charge Nurse.  Personal care includes assistance with meals, dressing, movement, and bathing.  The CNA follows established facility policies and procedures while providing care and coordinates resdient care with other facility personnel and families.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Provides or assists in bathing, grooming, toileting, and/or showering, while ensuring privacy and safety and encouraging independence.
2. Makes beds, straightens rooms, and keeps resident areas in an organized and clean manner, ensuring the entire nursing floor is kept orderly and demonstrating pride in the facility.
3. Respects residents’ rights by knocking on doors before entering, addressing them by name with the appropriate title, allowing/encouraging residents to make their own decisions when appropriate
4. Provides safe resident transfers involving bed, wheelchair, and/or shower chair, uses the gait belt, walker, or mechanical lift with all transfers. Protects residents from complications and injuries
5. Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration as required.
6. Sets up meal trays and assists with feeding when necessary. Assesses for choking and responds appropriately.
7. Ensures residents and equipment are clean after meals, including hands, and removes adult clothing protectors.
8. Accurately documents care given to residents including the documentation of reportable problems (ADL sheets, meal percentages, I&O, skin breakdown etc)
9. Reports changes in resident condition to the supervising nurse and/or Director of Nurses immediately (changes in skin conditions, urinary changes etc.).
10. Demonstrates flexibility with changing work demands.
11. Reports to the Charge Nurse equipment and supply needs, repair/maintenance needs, safety hazards and unusual occurrences or observations.
12. Assists the nursing department and other departments as required in other duties.
13. Provides appropriate interventions for residents per care plan, utilizes distraction and validation techniques as appropriate and encourages resident independence.
14. Assists residents to and from activities of choice and encourages the resident to participate in activities.

Required Qualifications:

1. Graduate of a Certified Nurse Aide course or currently enrolled in approved CNA training with intent to complete course in specified time frame of offered course with successful completion of competency evaluation.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. High School Graduate or equivalent