Certified Nursing Assistant; CNA

Come Join Our Healthcare Family!!

Competitive Wages! AM, PM and NOC shifts available. Do you want stability and longevity in your career? Are you dedicated to resident care and looking for competitive compensation? If YES, Beaver Dam Health Care Center is looking for YOU.

Beaver Dam Health Care Center is a skilled nursing home facility that takes pride in providing our residents with an amazing experience. We have an incredible tight‑knit family of caregivers who serve our residents every day with compassion, care and a positive attitude! We value and work hard to appreciate our caregivers because we recognize they are the foundation of our organization.

We would love for you to join that family.

• Health, Dental and Vision offerings
• AM, PM, NOC differentials
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• Great Work Environment
• 401k matched at 10%
• Flexible Hours (8‑hour shifts)
• Paid Holidays
• Same‑day pay with Tapcheck
• Job location:
  
  Beaver Dam, WI

Here at Beaver Dam Health Care Center, we rely on and trust our CNAs to perform direct patient care and create a compassionate environment. In this role, the core of your care will be ensuring that all of our customers are treated with dignity and respect. You will empower our patients, recognizing their ability to make their own choices while guiding them with kindness and understanding through challenging times.

As our first point of contact with patients and families, you'll encourage communication and interaction, creating a supportive network.

• Provide quality nursing care to residents in an environment which promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and their individuality.
• Provide individualized attention which encourages each resident’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well‑being.
• Be knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for residents and provide support according to the plan. Contribute to the care planning process by giving the charge nurse or other care‑planning staff specific information and observations of the residents’ needs and preferences.
• Attend to the individual needs of residents, which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements and scope of practice.
• Maintain the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in the delivery of services to them. Interact with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment.
• Fully understand all aspects of residents’ rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse. Promptly report incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents’ rights to the charge nurse or administrative staff.
• Assist in maintaining a safe, neat, and clean environment; report environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems.
• Protect the personal belongings of each resident and promptly report missing items according to established policy.
• Observe residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly report these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Provide 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 applying moisturizers to fragile skin.
• Answer residents’ call bells promptly and courteously.
• Perform various tasks assigned by the charge nurse including vital signs, residents’ weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
• Assist with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home upon admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
• Lift, move, and transport residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
• Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with the resident, visitors, families, peers, and supervisors.
• Assist and escort residents for…