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. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS - 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
Service Plan.

- Assists and promotes independence with cares (including
personal hygiene), ambulating, preparation of meals, doing personal
laundry and doing household 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 perinea 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.

- Answer all
call signals and requests of residents immediately.

- Encourages/assist
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. ****
* OTHER

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- Must be 16 years of age or
older.

- Successful completion of CNA training course. *****