CNA Weekends

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide personal care to residents, including bathing (bed, shower, tub, whirlpool) shampooing,combing hair, oral care, personal hygiene, shaving, nail care, and dressing. Ensure call bell is positioned within residents’ reach.
• Keep incontinent residents clean and dry.
• Distribute, empty, and clean bedpans and urinals and assist residents to and from bathroom or with bedside commode.
• Empty catheter bags as needed.
• Ambulate residents, assist residents in and out of chairs and wheelchairs, position bedridden residents according to plan of care, and utilize appropriate support devices.
• Make rounds and reposition residents.
• Prepare residents for meals and assist with meal service – transport residents to and from dining room, serve trays, assist with feeding when necessary, remove trays, and accurately document residents’ intake immediately after consumption.
• Serve nourishments and betweenmealsnacks to residents as ordered and distribute ice and water, rotating water pitchers and deliver pitchers to the Dietary Department for sanitation.
• Make occupied and unoccupied beds and turn down beds for residents.
• Provide skin care – keep residents on turn schedule and use lotions and massages as needed.
• Check residents’ restraints and releases to allow for activity and reapply restraints as ordered.
• Take and record vital signs.
• Answer call lights and answer questions and respond, giving appropriate care or alerting Supervisor.
• Observe residents for any changes in condition and report changes to Supervisor.
• Measure and record intake and output.
• Document appropriate information daily in the electronic health record.
• Transport residents to and from activities.
• Treat residents with dignity and always observe all residents’ rights and confidentiality.
• Attend mandatory in services and maintain certification.
• Assist with orientation of new Nursing Assistants.
• Straighten residents’ rooms and closets and clean inside of bedside tables.
• Clean and return resident care equipment to appropriate areas.
• Remove soiled linen, rinse in the hopper and transport dirty linens to laundry.
• Label residents’ clothes and put away residents’ clean clothes.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Completion of high school education or otherwise show ability to read, write, and follow oral and written directions.
• Must be certified in the state were applying or have successfully completed CNA training from a state approved school and obtain certification within the first four (4) months of employment.
• Must be capable of maintaining regular attendance as required.
• Must be able to work weekend and overtime as required.
• Must meet all local health regulations and pass postemployment exam, if required.

• Frequent walking, reaching, climbing, bending, lifting, grasping, fine hand coordination, pushing, and pulling.
• Willing to work beyond normal working hours and during disastrous circumstances, if needed.
• Must be capable of performing the Essential Job Functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must be able to relate positively and favorable to residents, families, and outside agencies and to work cooperatively with other associates.
• Ability to present to groups.
• Ability to remain calm under stress.
• Ability to communicate with local staff, remote staff, and outside agencies.

• Understand, comply with, and promote rules regarding resident’s rights.
• Maintain an orderly, confidential, and safe work environment.
• Assist with admissions and discharges.
• Practice universal precautions at all times.
• Adhere to all Company and departmental policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.