Job Openings CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant

About the job CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant

Job details

Salary: $17.25 - $24.75 an hour

Specialties: Medical-Surgical, Geriatrics

Available shifts: Day shift, Night shift, Evening shift, Weekend availability, Monday to Friday, Holidays, 12 hour shift

Work Settings: Long term care, Nursing home, Acute care

Job Type: Full-time; Per diem

Qualifications

  • High school or equivalent (Required)
  • CNA (Required)
  • BLS Certification (Required)
  • Long term care: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Skilled Nursing Facility: 1 year (Preferred)

Job Description

Position Overview:

This position performs resident/patient care activities and related services necessary in caring for the personal needs, safety, and comfort of residents/patients as assigned. Assists in providing a positive physical, social, and psychological environment. The CNA II relates positively, effectively, and appropriately with residents/patients, families, community members, volunteers and other facility staff. Successful incumbents have fast and adaptive problem-solving skills who value collaboration and teamwork. This position has an in-depth understanding of patient care policies and regulations and is comfortable working with specific populations of patients, including elderly patients and those with special needs.

CNA IIs work 12-hour shifts and are required to cross train and float to the OVCH Acute Care facility four (4) times a year. This supports the collaboration and teamwork between departments and offers support for the Swing patients.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • High school Diploma or equivalent
  • Certified in the state of California as a Nursing Assistant CNA
  • Current BLS Certification

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous Long-Term Care experience

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Assists with resident/patient care needs and comforts including but not limited to:

  • Assists or gives oral hygiene and mouth care.
  • Assists with bathing functions and dressing/undressing as necessary.
  • Assists with nail care, shaving and hair care.
  • Assists with lifting, turning, positioning and transporting residents.
  • Makes both occupied and unoccupied bed (as assigned).
  • Keeps residents/patients dry (i.e. change gown, clothing, linen, etc.) when they become soiled or wet.
  • Assists resident/patient with bowel or bladder functions.
  • Checks resident/patients frequently to assure that their personal care needs are being met.

2. Assists with nursing functions as follows:

  • Measures and records vital signs.
  • Weighs and measures residents/patients.
  • Collects Specimens (i.e. urine, stool, sputum)
  • Prepares and gives enemas.
  • Provides daily indwelling catheter care.
  • Performs diabetic urine testing.
  • Turns bedfast residents/patients at least every two hours.
  • Provides daily range of motion exercises.
  • Assists with care of dying residents.
  • Maintains accurate intake and output records.
  • Noting observations of patient behavior, including complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.

3. Performs food service functions including:

  • Prepares resident/patients for meals (i.e. take to bathroom, wash hands, oral care, take to and from dining room, etc.).
  • Serves food trays. Assists with feeding as indicated.
  • Records the residents/patients food fluid intake.
  • Serves between meal and bedtime snacks.
  • Keeps residents/patients water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water on each shift.
  • Performs after meal care (i.e. clean residents/patients hands, face, clothing, brush teeth, take to bathroom, etc.).
  • Notes and reports changes in resident/patient eating habits, especially those on diabetic diet.
  • Assists with keeping nursing and resident/patient care area neat, sanitary and orderly.
  • Floats to the OVCH Acute Care Facility four (4) times each year.
  • Appropriately records and charges for supplies.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Medical specialties:

  • Medical-Surgical

Physical setting:

  • Hospital
  • Nursing home

Standard shift:

  • Day shift
  • Evening shift
  • Night shift

Supplemental schedule:

  • Holidays

Weekly schedule:

  • Monday to Friday
  • Rotating weekends
  • Weekend availability

Education:

  • High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

  • Long term care: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Skilled Nursing Facility: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

  • CNA (Required)
  • BLS Certification (Required)

Work Location: One location


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