Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) 11p-7a Assisted Living

Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) 11p-7a Assisted Living

DALLAS, TX

Join Our Team!

Presbyterian Village North is immediately hiring CNA's for 3rd shift in our Senior Living Community.

Wonderful environment and strong teammate relationships!

Affordable medical, dental, vision benefits and paid time off. 401K is available after your 1st year.

Come grow with us.

With a shared legacy in business and healthcare innovation, Forefront Living's family of care-oriented organizations blends values built on compassion and faith with high-quality senior care - long-term care, Alzheimer's and memory care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation therapies, hospice and palliative care.

These senior care services, along with the celebration of independent living at our senior lifestyle communities, combine to bring deeper meaning to every phase of life for people of all faiths, regardless of race, gender, color, religion, national origin or disability.

Forefront Living is the not-for-profit, faith-based parent of Presbyterian Village North, The Outlook at Windhaven, Bella Vida, St. Joseph Village, and the T. Boone Pickens Hospice and Palliative Care Center.

• Models a servant and solutions oriented attitude towards others, takes ownership in solving problems and takes the initiative to make things better, is friendly and courteous to residents, patients and co-workers
• Ensure resident/patient, visitor, and co-worker safety by remaining aware of and reporting any new or existing safety hazards
• Makes beds, straightens rooms and keeps resident care areas in an organized and clean manner, ensuring the entire nursing floor is kept orderly
• Respects resident's rights by: (knocks on doors before entering room, addresses resident by name, allows resident to make own decisions when appropriate, promotes independence)
• Provides safe resident transfers involving bed, wheelchair and /or shower chair, uses the gait belt with all transfers, to protect resident from complications and injuries
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respirations as required
• Assists residents with simple range of motion or other exercises as directed by nurse or therapist and ambulates resident safely according to his/her endurance levels
• Applies medical or adaptive devices as ordered by the appropriate supervising nurse
• Makes rounds to ensure resident's safety, comfort, medical attention every hour or as required by the resident
• Collects specimens as directed
• Completes weights for each resident as required
• Sets up meal tray and assists with feeding as necessary. Assesses for choking and responds appropriately
• Ensures residents and equipment are clean after meals, including hands, and removes clothing protectors
• Accurately documents care given to residents including the documentation of reportable resident problems (i.e. ADL sheets, B&B sheets, meal percentages, I&O, s/s of skin breakdowns, etc.)
• Reports changes in resident condition to the supervising nurse and /or Director immediately (i.e. changes in skin conditions, urinary changes, etc.)
• Reports problems with completion of assignments
• Demonstrates flexibility with changing work demands
• Reports to charge nurse: equipment and supply needs, repair/maintenance needs, safety hazards and unusual occurrences or observations
• Attends and participates in appropriate in-service and staff meetings to improve knowledge and skills and to maintain competency and certification
• Wears prescribed uniforms, follows prescribed dress code, wears name tag appropriately and maintains a professional image to the public and residents
• Assists the home department and other departments when required in other duties and tasks when asked
• Provides appropriate interventions for resident behavior per care plan, utilizes distraction and validation techniques as appropriate and encourages resident independence
• Assists residents to and from activities of choice and encourages the resident to participate in activities of choice
• Assists activity director as needed with activities and if necessary leads activity
• Other duties as assigned

• High school diploma or GED is required
• Possession of a valid Texas…