Position Summary
The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) position provides quality
nursing care. This includes maintaining the comfort, privacy, and
dignity of residents in the delivery of services to them. The CNA
interacts with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes
a caring environment to ensure the highest quality of living.
Essential Job Duties
- SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITION
- Provides individualized attention to resident’s daily personal
care needs, which may include grooming, bathing, dressing, eating,
toileting, incontinence, and other needs in keeping with their care requirements.
- Assisting residents with lifts, moves and transports, using proper
body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
- Responding to inquiries relating to requests from residents,
visitors and other personnel promptly and courteously within given
time frames and established policy
- Adhering to assigned resident rotation daily to assist in needs
and ensure cleanliness of the resident and resident rooms. This may
include cleaning rooms and/or laundering.
- Is knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for residents,
and provides support to the residents according to their care plan.
Contributes to the care planning process by providing the charge
nurse or other care planning staff with specific information and
observations of the residents needs and preferences.
- Communicates and interacts effectively and tactfully with the
residents, visitors, families, peers and supervisors promoting a
homelike environment.
- Fully understands all aspects of residents rights, including the
right to be free of restraints and free of abuse. Is responsible for
promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff
incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents rights.
- Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed
safety and infection control procedures, including thorough hand
washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated and proper
disposal of soiled materials. Also providing care that maintains
each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin
tears and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning,
repositioning immobile residents and by applying moisturizers to
fragile skin and other areas.
- Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including
checking vital signs, weighing residents, applying creams/ointments
and collecting specimens.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or general education diploma (GED) is required.
- Certified Nursing Assistant Certification required
- Completion of Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation Program for
Long Term Care Facility preferred.
- Must meet all healthcare requirements, including Tuberculosis skin test
- Must be in positive standing with all healthcare agencies,
including the Employment Clearance Registry and Adult Maltreatment Registry
- Assisted Living Facility experience preferred.
Physical Demands:
This position may require frequent standing/walking,
bending/stooping, lifting/handling, pushing/pulling and occasional
carrying. Weights may vary from 70 to 300 pounds and the frequency of
treatments may vary from resident to resident. Occasionally the feet
and legs are used in the motion to release and lock brakes of
wheelchairs and beds.