Certified Nursing Assistant ( Cna ) All Shifts

FUNCTION

Cares for residents under the direction and supervision of a registered nurse or a licensed practical/vocational nurse.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Freedom from illegal use of drugs
• Freedom from use of and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
• Anyone found guilty by a court of law of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating individuals in health care related setting are ineligible for employment in the position.

Education and/or

Experience:

Minimum High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

Certificates, Licensees, Registrations:
Graduate of a state approved nursing assistant training program and passed a state approved competency examination (written and skills) within 120 days of employment; name entered into state nurse aide registry.

Must be able to express self adequately in written and oral communication and to communicate effectively in an interdisciplinary care setting with residents, families and staff members.

Ability to add and subtract three digit numbers; calculate percentage of whole; measure in cubic centimeters (cc’s); measure in feet and inches. Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, length and height.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.

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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each key function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the key functions.

Care and Services:

• Take and record vital signs
• Measure and record height and weight
• Calculate and record weight gain or loss
• Calculate and record fluid intake and output
• Cares for the resident’s environment
• Recognizes abnormal changes in body functioning and importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor
• Cares for residents when death is imminent
• Make routine rounds on each assigned resident every two hours
• Bathes residents
• Assist with grooming, including mouth care
• Dress residents
• Toilet residents
• Assist with eating and hydration
• Use proper feeding techniques
• Calculate and record percentage of meal eaten
• Observe resident’s skin when giving care and reports changes to license nurse
• Provide skin care
• Transfer, position and turn residents
• Meet residents’ mental health and social service needs
• Modify own behavior in response to resident’s behaviors
• Allow residents to make personal choices
• Provide and reinforce other behavior consistent with the residents’ dignity.
• Use the residents’ families as a source of emotional support.
• Contribute to the resident’s assessment (MDS/CAA) and the plan of care.

Provide nursing rehabilitation/restorative nursing services:

• Promote resident’s ability to adopt and adjust to living as independently as possible
• Train the resident in self-care according to the resident’s abilities
• Train the resident in the use of assistive devices for transferring, walking and mobility.
• Dressing and grooming, eating and swallowing:
  Maintain range of motion; proper turning and positioning in bed and chair
• Provide bladder and bowel retraining
• Instruct the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices
• Incorporate training and skill practice activities which include repetition, physical or verbal cueing and task segmentation

Care for residents with dementia:

• Know how to respond to residents’ behaviors
• Allow residents to make personal choices
• Provide and reinforce other behavior consistent with residents’ dignity
• Use the residents’ families as a source of emotional support
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of behavior and functional symptoms associated with dementia by providing interventions and treatments to help reduce these symptoms
• Use modification in the presentation of activities of daily living to maintain and maximize resident competencies and function
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