• 3 - 12 hour days 7p-7a including every Saturday, every Sunday, and every Monday or Friday as schedule requires. Also includes every other holiday even if holiday scheduled is not a Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Friday. Provided all shifts are worked as scheduled, employee will be considered Full-Time and receive benefits plus 1 1/2 X base rate.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Perform AM or PM care as required following the care plan outlined for each resident. Keeping up with all changes to the plan of care throughout resident’s stay.
• Assists residents to and from bed, chairs, etc. Employee must be able to lift 50 lbs.
• Bathes Residents, gives shampoos, shaves Residents, trim nails, and assists Residents with personal and dental hygiene.
• Dresses Residents properly and comfortably.
• Makes beds and keeps Resident rooms clean and orderly.
• Delivers, serves, and removes meal trays. Assists Residents with meals. Helps to feed. Gives personal care after meals.
• Transports Residents for meals, activities, and therapies.
• Serves fresh water, ice, and nourishment.
• Assists Residents to and from bathroom. Assists Residents with bedpans and urinals. Keeps incontinent Residents clean at all times. Changes bed linen as often as necessary.
• Prepares Residents for tests, x-rays, physician visits, therapies, activities, etc.
• Rinses out heavily stained Resident laundry.
• Assists relatives and visitors.
• Assists with and/or performs procedures as outlined and with proper instruction and supervision such as: admitting, transferring, and discharging; taking and recording vital signs; measuring and recording intake and output, collecting specimens; changes binders and slings; empties colostomy bags and drainage bottles; applies hot and cold compresses, and give sitz baths.
• Cares for Residents in isolation.
• Assists with care of dying/deceased.
• Uses safety devices and takes precautions.
• Ensures that room temperature and humidity are compatible with the Resident.
• Assists nurses in giving treatments and examining Residents.
• Uses aseptic technique and universal precautions in all Resident care to prevent spread of disease and infection.
• Observes Residents and notes physical condition, attitude, reactions, appetite, etc.

Reports changes or unusual findings to supervisor.

• Charts required information and signs entries.
• Answers call-lights and bells timely.
• Receives and gives reports.
• Assists with alarm rounds at change of shift.
• Attends inservices, seminars, workshops, and conferences related to field.
• Assists with emergencies and in redirecting agitated Residents.
• Reserves Resident information as confidential.

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  Recognize your role as part of the QAPI efforts of your organization.
• Attend trainings to build understanding and capacity to undertake QAPI work.
• Carry out QAPI roles and responsibilities as assigned.
• Follow established policies and procedures in support of QAPI efforts.
• Look for and share with leadership ideas for improvement in the organization.
• Communication to leadership upon witnessing a positive outcome of a QAPI project or detecting barriers preventing project success.
• Support QAPI efforts both verbally and non-verbally (i.e., via actions and attitude), including adjusting performance and practice in accordance with QAPI initiatives and findings.
• Recognize your role for Trauma Informed Care: Promotes a culture of safety, empowerment and healing; recognizes that everyone who interacts at Rest Haven may have past traumatic experience and protects trauma survivors from being re-traumatized.
• Recognize your role for Compliance and Ethics: Participates in annual compliance and ethics training. Follows code of conduct reporting any compliance and ethics concerns.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Assists with physical and occupational therapy.
• Performs personal services for Residents within reason, such as: reading, writing letters, operating TV/radio, and running in-house errands.
• Performs assigned clerical duties at nursing station. Answers telephone and intercom. Runs errands as directed by supervisor.
• Participants in unit cleaning duties, such as cleaning of wheelchairs and gerichairs, as directed.
• May perform other duties as directed by supervisor.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Well-lighted, ventilated rooms and halls.
• Sits, stands, and walks intermittently during the workday.
• Lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, and pulling are required.
• Communicates with nursing personnel, Residents, visitors, family, and other department personnel.
• Exposed to infection, odors, and to peculiarities in the behavior and reactions of the aging.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school graduate preferred or equivalent.
• Current Pennsylvania State Certification for nursing assistant. Must be in good standing.
• Previous experience in hospital or nursing home preferred.
• Must have patience, compassion, a sense of responsibility and a sincere desire to work with the aged and infirmed.
• Mental and physical health sufficient to meet the demands of the position.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate with the elderly and other personnel.
• Ability to anticipate needs and modes of geriatric Residents while remaining calm and composed.
• Ability to treat Rest Haven and Resident information as confidential.
• Must be a professional.
• Criminal history background clearance – Act 169 & Act 13.