Certified Nursing Assistant - CNA

Golden Palms Rehabilitation and Retirement

Come join our team and start making a difference!

Are you craving to work in a healthcare setting where you’re not only valued, but appreciated and have the respect from your supervisors and co‑workers as well as patients/residents you’re caring for? Then we are the place for you!

Shift: Day 2 available

Full‑time 6am-6pm

Licensure:
Texas CNA license is required

• Provide compassionate resident care as necessary or as directed by the licensed nurse
• Assist residents in activities of daily living (ADLs) and document in medical record
• Answer resident call lights promptly
• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident information
• Communicate professionally with residents, families and staff
• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids
• Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care (e.g., brushing teeth/dentures, oral hygiene, special mouth care, etc.)
• Assist residents with bath functions (e.g., bedbath, tub or shower bath, etc.) as directed
• Give backrubs as instructed
• Assist residents with dressing/undressing as necessary
• Assist residents with hair care functions (e.g., combing, brushing, shampooing, etc.)
• Assist residents with nail care (e.g., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails)
• (
  
  Note:
  
  Does not include diabetic residents)
• Shave male residents
• Keep hair on female residents clean shaven (e.g., facial hair, under arms, on legs, etc.) as instructed
• Keep residents dry (e.g., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled)
• Change bed linens. Keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the resident
• Make beds (occupied and unoccupied)
• Put extra covers on beds as requested
• Position bedfast residents in correct and comfortable position
• Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (e.g., take to bathroom, offer bedpan/urinal, portable commode, etc.)
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed
• Keep incontinent residents clean and dry
• Check and report bowel movements and character of stools as instructed
• Prepare and give enemas. Report results as instructed
• Collect specimens as instructed (e.g., urine, sputum, stools, etc.)
• Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (e.g., lab work, x‑ray, therapy, dental, etc.)
• Assist residents in preparing for activity and social programs (e.g., church services, parties, visitors, etc.)
• Assist in transporting residents to/from appointments, activity and social programs, etc., as necessary
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Assist residents to walk with or without self‑help devices as instructed
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed
• Change dressings, bandages, binders, etc., as instructed
• Provide eye and ear care (e.g., warm/cold compresses, eye/ear instillation, cleaning eyeglasses/hearing aides, etc.) as instructed
• Weigh and measure residents as instructed
• Measure and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations (TPRs) as instructed
• Answer resident calls promptly
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes
• Assist with the care of the dying resident

• Health/Dental/Vision/Disability/Life Insurance/ 401k+ more
• Employee Discounts on Cell Phone service, Hotels, Movie Tickets, etc.
• Opportunities for growth!

• Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.)
• Greet residents and escort them to their room
• Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate
• Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area and assist with loading/unloading residents from vehicles as necessary
• Perform all assigned tasks in…