Nursing Assistant Job at Brunswick Nursing and Rehab
SUMMARY: A certified nursing assistant’s (CNA) main role is to provided basic care to patients, as well as assist them in daily activities they have trouble with on their own.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:
- Serve as a conduit between patients, nurses, doctors, and record and communicate all issues to administrator.
- Provide personal care functions for residents, including:
- Bathing (bed, tub, shower, or sponge bath)
- Skin Care
- Toileting (bedpan, urinal, commode and/or toilet)
- Grooming (shampoo, nailcare, and shaving)
- Oral hygiene (denture care)
- Assist with dressing and undressing
- Assist with feeding of residents.
- Measuring and recording intake and output
- Weigh residents using upright, chair, and bed scale.
- Assist in turning and positioning of residents.
- Proper transfer techniques.
- Demonstrates appropriate knowledge for safe use of medical equipment (cane, crutches, walkers, Hoyer Lift, side rails, brace, splints, oxygen).
- Helps keep residents’ rooms clean and supplies.
- Make and change beds (unoccupied and occupied).
- Transport residents, supplies, and equipment as needed.
- Assists nurses and other personnel as needed.
- Ambulate residents who require minimal assistance.
- Simple, non-sterile dressings.
- Perform skin assessment and notify RN of any abnormalities in skin integrity.
- Applies heat or cold compresses as directed by a RN.
- Answer residents calls and takes appropriate action.
- Collects and labels specimens (urine, stool, sputum).
- Measures and records vital signs/weights and reports variations in vital signs to RN.
- Immediately reports any changes in client’s condition or incidents to the Nursing Supervisor.
- Maintains confidentiality in relation to all clients, healthcare staff and documentation.
- Appearance is professional and complies with dress code.
- Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
- Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Compassionate, mature, sympathetic, and professional at all times.
- Ability to read, write, understand, and carry out directions.
- Candidate will have the physical ability to perform job-related duties, which may require lifting, standing, bending, transferring, stooping, stretching, walking, pushing, and pulling.
- Valid State License (as required per state regulations)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- It is an essential function in order to care for residents to be able to lift, pull, and push thirty-five (35) pounds often.
- Ability to stand for extended periods.
- Fine motor skills.
- Visual acuity.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT:
- Employee is subject to inside environmental conditions.
- Work on and around blood and body fluids.
- Frequent repetitive motion.
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