Hospital CNA

Hospital CNA# Hospital CNACozad Community Hospital - Cozad, NE 69130## Overview Salary Range $16.75 - $27.91 Hourly## Description
** Our Mission:
** To improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve demonstrating compassionate, patient-centered care.

Summary The Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct and indirect patient care as directed by the nursing plan of care, under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. Responsible for registering patients that come in for hospital services, gathering all demographic and insurance information in accordance with the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Cozad Community Health System.
** Essential Duties and Responsibilities
** This description intends to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
* Performs responsibilities related to the provision of patient care.
* Performs hourly patient rounding for all assigned patients.
* Responds in a timely manner to patient/family concerns and provides immediate interventions when possible.
* Administers scope of practice treatments and procedures in a timely and safe manner according to physician orders and nursing policy, using standard precautions.
* Implements infectious disease controls including isolation, proper hand washing, and PPE.
* Performs and maintains documentation.
* Provides quality healthcare services to all patients and participates in providing quality metrics.
* Processes admissions of patients for hospital services.
* Ensures Worker’s Compensation/Motor Vehicle Accident information is completed appropriately and timely.
* Assists with answering incoming calls.
* Follows all HIPAA guidelines and promotes and ensures patient safety.
* Fulfills mission statement by performing job duties with a high level of customer service while contributing to a positive and professional environment.
* Special projects and other duties as assigned.## Qualifications
** Education and/or Experience
** High School diploma or equivalent.

Licensure/Certification Current Certified Nursing Assistant licensure in the State of Nebraska.

Basic Life Support (CPR)
Valid Driver’s License
** Physical Demands
** The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; must occasionally push, pull and assist with lifting up to 300 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
** Work Environment
** While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in a hospital setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
** Equal Employment Opportunity
** Cozad Community Health System is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified employees from the available workforce in the communities we serve.

Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Cozad Community Health System, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination and retaliation because of veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, color, national origin or ancestry, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable local, state, or federal law.