CNA HC

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Pool Bryn Mawr, PA, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $21.89 To $24.48 Annually

Come and join our vibrant retirement community and enjoy being a key member of our Team.
We know that our people are the key to our success. We are a CCRC situated on a beautiful 50-acre campus with warm and friendly staff.

Perform direct resident care duties under the supervision of licensed nursing personnel. Assist with promoting a compassionate physical and psychosocial environment for the residents.

• Required to be cross-trained in all areas including Skilled Nursing and Personal Care. Must be willing to work in all areas as needed.
• Observe and practice safety according to facility policy and procedure.
• Able to explain and demonstrate fire/emergency procedures.
• Properly use and maintain facility equipment.
• Show respect for facility property.
• Demonstrate and able to explain infection control and isolation procedures.
• Demonstrate and able to explain proper body mechanics.
• Ensure residents are given correct diet.
• Use proper feeding techniques while respecting personal dignity and meeting the residents’ needs for socialization.
• Make beds correctly and wrinkle free.
• Maintain residents’ rooms in neat, orderly and clutter-free manner. Support residents’ participation in activity programs
• Promote and maintain positive relationships with co-workers, residents, visitors, volunteers, and regulators.
• Directly respond, within their scope of practice, to needs and concerns of residents and family members.
• Work with the care giving team to identify and resolve resident and family issues.
• Promptly respond to call lights and other resident needs.
• Treat residents with compassion and dignity.
• Establish effective communication/interaction with residents and families.
• Ensure residents’ right to privacy (visual and auditory).
• Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility records/information.
• Show respect for residents’ personal property.
• Ensure residents are dressed appropriately, consistent with weather conditions, and according to their wishes.
• Recognize a resident’s ability to make choices and support these within the constraints of the care giving environment.
• Communicate with members of the care giving team about residents’ personal choices.
• Communicate residents’ “end of life” concerns and wishes to the Charge Nurse.
• The CNA is sensitive and appropriately responsive to each resident’s “end of life” wishes.
• Perform the following according to policy and procedure:
  Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure, ambulate residents. Apply proper lifting and transferring techniques. Provide proper positioning and use of postural supports. Maintain residents’ positioning, as needed. Weigh residents on schedule and record weights accurately. Provide restorative and rehabilitative nursing. Provide active and passive range of motion. Implement bowel and bladder program. Collect certain specimens for cultures pursuant to facility policy and within the scope of duties.
• Ensure residents’ comfort while assisting them in achieving their highest practicable level of functioning as follows:
  Assist residents with their activities of daily living. Provide oral care and hygiene pursuant to plan of care. Provide nail care pursuant to plan of care. Assist residents with dressing and grooming according to their needs, wishes and desires. Bathe residents with attention to privacy, respecting dignity and providing a safe and relaxing experience.
• Performs work safely by consistently using gait belts, back supports and lifts.
• Assist in…