CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant

Available shifts:
Day shift, Night shift, Evening shift, Weekend availability, Monday to Friday, Holidays, 12 hour shift

Work Settings:
Long term care, Nursing home, Acute care

• High school or equivalent (Required)
• CNA (Required)
• BLS Certification (Required)
• Long term care: 1 year (Preferred)
• Skilled Nursing Facility: 1 year (Preferred)

Position Overview:

This position performs resident/patient care activities and related services necessary in caring for the personal needs, safety, and comfort of residents/patients as assigned. Assists in providing a positive physical, social, and psychological environment. The CNA II relates positively, effectively, and appropriately with residents/patients, families, community members, volunteers and other facility staff. Successful incumbents have fast and adaptive problem-solving skills who value collaboration and teamwork.

This position has an in-depth understanding of patient care policies and regulations and is comfortable working with specific populations of patients, including elderly patients and those with special needs.

CNA IIs work 12-hour shifts and are required to cross train and float to the OVCH Acute Care facility four (4) times a year. This supports the collaboration and teamwork between departments and offers support for the Swing patients.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school Diploma or equivalent
• Certified in the state of California as a Nursing Assistant CNA
• Current BLS Certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous Long-Term Care experience

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Assists with resident/patient care needs and comforts including but not limited to:

• Assists or gives oral hygiene and mouth care.
• Assists with bathing functions and dressing/undressing as necessary.
• Assists with nail care, shaving and hair care.
• Assists with lifting, turning, positioning and transporting residents.
• Makes both occupied and unoccupied bed (as assigned).
• Keeps residents/patients dry (i.e. change gown, clothing, linen, etc.) when they become soiled or wet.
• Assists resident/patient with bowel or bladder functions.
• Checks resident/patients frequently to assure that their personal care needs are being met.

2. Assists with nursing functions as follows:

• Measures and records vital signs.
• Weighs and measures residents/patients.
• Prepares and gives enemas.
• Provides daily indwelling catheter care.
• Performs diabetic urine testing.
• Turns bedfast residents/patients at least every two hours.
• Provides daily range of motion exercises.
• Assists with care of dying residents.
• Maintains accurate intake and output records.
• Noting observations of patient behavior, including complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.

3. Performs food service functions including:

• Prepares resident/patients for meals (i.e. take to bathroom, wash hands, oral care, take to and from dining room, etc.).
• Serves food trays. Assists with feeding as indicated.
• Records the residents/patients food fluid intake.
• Serves between meal and bedtime snacks.
• Keeps residents/patients water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water on each shift.
• Performs after meal care (i.e. clean residents/patients hands, face, clothing, brush teeth, take to bathroom, etc.).
• Notes and reports changes in resident/patient eating habits, especially those on diabetic diet.
• Assists with keeping nursing and resident/patient care area neat, sanitary and orderly.
• Floats to the OVCH Acute Care Facility four (4) times each year.
• Appropriately records and charges for supplies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Medical specialties:

• Medical-Surgical

Physical setting:

• Hospital
• Nursing home

Standard shift:

• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Night shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Long term care: 1 year (Preferred)
• Skilled Nursing Facility: 1 year (Preferred)