Certified Nursing Assistant - LTC

Certified Nursing Assistant Opportunity

Looking for a new career that offers excellent benefits, tuition reimbursement, low CNA to resident ratios, and endless opportunities for career growth? Then join the Good Shepherd family! Good Shepherd Home Bethlehem is a 60-bed long-term care facility that offers intermediate, heavy, or skilled nursing care for persons with physical disabilities ages 18 years and older. We are looking for a compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant to join our family!

To provide and participate in the delivery of basic nursing care such as grooming, oral feeding, transfers, toileting, oral care, weight taking, vital signs, etc., as well as maintenance of the unit environment, all under the supervision of a licensed nurse.

• Maintains provision of quality care
• Renders basic nursing care in compliance with Residents' Rights, under the supervision of a licensed nurse
• Responds professionally and anticipates resident need
• Complies with individualized care plans of residents
• Receives reports regarding assigned residents as beginning of shift
• Reports off to supervising nurse at end of shift and whenever leaving unit
• Assists residents to attain or maintain their highest practicable level (physically, mentally, and psychologically)
• Utilizes resident specific information as conversation topics
• Assists residents to receive care in a timeframe and manner according to their preferences
• Reports changes in resident status, resident response to care, equipment and supply needs, repairs and maintenance needs, safety hazards, unusually occurrences or observations, and completion of assignments to licensed staff
• Documents resident care accurately and in a timely manner
• Respects residents' rights
• Contributes to the residents care plan by providing resident-specific physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual information derived through care giving activities
• Assists with resident admissions, transfers, and discharges
• Prepares rooms for new admissions
• Provides supportive care to residents as end of life
• Demonstrates knowledge of working with persons with cognitive loss
• Complies with all aspects HIPAA
• Conforms with organizational policies and procedures with regard to maintaining confidentiality of resident and organizational information
• Educates self and utilizes knowledge of resident preferences, needs, competencies, history, and cultural background through resident interaction, conversation, interview, and observation, in planning and provision of care
• Incorporates and implements strategies to include psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual components into resident's daily life
• Communicates information pertaining to residents' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual characteristics/preferences, to the interdisciplinary team
• Performs direct and indirect resident care activities as per the plan of care and consistent with LTC policies and procedures including, but not limited to: bathing (bed bath, tub, shower), feeding, toileting, perineal care, grooming (hair, nails, foot care), shampooing residents' hair, oral /denture care, measuring intake and output, transfers from bed, chair, and wheelchair, assisting residents in use of assistive devices, positioning residents in chairs, beds, wheelchairs, gericharis, turning and changing resident position, lifting residents with mechanical lifts, performing both passive and active range of motion exercises, making occupied and unoccupied beds, obtaining resident weights, taking vital signs, providing post-mortem care, practicing universal precautions and special isolation techniques, monitoring devices as per plan of care
• Transporting and escorting residents as needed
• Demonstrates knowledge of all organizational emergency codes and participates effectively
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill in resident transfers, oral feeding, and provision of personal hygiene
• Protects residents from compilations and injuries
• Responds to the concerns, potential or actual injury, and/or distress of all residents, visitors, and staff
• Protects residents from abuse and neglect and reports suspected and/or actual abuse to supervisor
• Complies with Infection Control policies, procedures, and regulations
• Complies with organizational / Infection Control standards on storage and disposal of toxic and non-toxic chemicals and other wastes
• Coordinates with health care support personnel as necessary
• Keep equipment, supplies, and residents furniture clean
• Keeps environment clean
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill on appropriate usage of equipment according to manufacture's instructions
• Participates in the evaluation and recommendation of new equipment
• Utilizes equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• Demonstrate time management skills through prioritization of tasks
• Maintains organizational policy in regard to meal and break time
• Reports to duty on time
• Maintains certification and abides by renewal time frame
• Identifies professional education needs and opportunities
• Completes 12…