Certified Nursing Assistant

Job Requirements

This position provides personal care for residents to assure the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times within a safe environment; assists with activities of daily living, offers emotional and social support, and attends to residents overall physical comfort.

• Assists with implementing each individual's service plan, therapeutic physical/psychological care, and increasing independent vocational and leisure skills.
• Assists with carrying out restorative plans.
• Maintains documentation of behavioral symptoms and other data collection requirements in accordance with the service plan.
• Assists and promotes independence with cares (including personal hygiene), ambulating, preparation of meals, doing personal laundry, and housekeeping tasks.
• Functions as an integral member of the team providing appropriate interventions during medical, behavioral, and/or facility emergencies.
• Provides personal hygiene including bathing (tub, shower, bed bath), oral care, skin and nail care, and hand washing.
• Completes resident grooming including hair care, shaving, dressing, and weighing; encourages residents toward independent personal care.
• Assists with toileting including bowel and bladder retraining and perineal care.
• Performs and assists with mobility, transferring, ambulation, positioning, and range of motion per the care plan.
• Documents accurately all cares given, including dietary intake and output, temperature, weight, using approved abbreviations and descriptive terms.
• Serves residents their meals; motivates and assists them with intake of nourishment and fluids.
• Reports to supervisor for written and verbal assignments which include daily use of care plans for assigned residents before initiating care.
• Participates in the planning of resident care through shift reports and resident care staffing meetings when assigned.
• Informs verbally and/or submits in writing any observations and changes in a resident for the licensed nurse or supervisor to evaluate, including dietary intake.
• Answers all call signals and requests of residents immediately.
• Encourages/assists residents in keeping their rooms clean and orderly; assists with making beds.
• Maintains unit in a clean and orderly manner.
• Keeps all resident's personal belongings and equipment clean.
• Escorts residents to appointments and/or therapy departments as scheduled.
• Participates in unit activity programs planned for residents as needed.
• Performs a total inventory of all resident's possessions on admission, discharge, or transfer.
• Ensures all resident's possessions are properly labeled.
• Responds to resident emergency including bleeding, falls, seizures, and performance of Heimlich maneuver.
• Assists with post‑mortem care as assigned.
• Performs housekeeping and laundry responsibilities as needed.
• Assists with the training and orientation of new household assistants.
• Provides backup assistance to other department personnel as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be 16 years of age or older.
• Successful completion of CNA training course.