CNA​/Universal Worker Park Place

Base pay range

$17.17/hr - $17.17/hr

From $17.17 per hour

Scheduled Hours 6:00am - 2:30pm | Rotating Weekends and Holidays

$2,500.00 Sign On Bonus for Eligible Candidates

Provides basic resident care under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse. Utilizes a resident centered approach based on resident centered principles to provide personal care and assistance with activities of daily living. The CNA/ Universal Worker provides each resident with routine daily nursing care and other desired services in accordance with the resident's assessment, choices, and care plan under the supervision of a licensed nurse to ensure the highest degree of quality of care is maintained at all times.

• Personal Care:
  Bathing and dressing residents as care planned and as needed ensuring that the residents are properly and comfortably clothed. Comb hair, shave resident, trim nails, and assists with personal and dental hygiene. Prepare residents for physician appointments and visitors. Assist with end-of-life care and postmortem care. Notes changes in skin condition and reports to nurse. Makes regular rounds to observe resident and note changes.
  
  Answers resident calls and determines how to assist them.
• Exercise/Restorative/Rehabilitative Care:
  Positions for comfort in bed and chair utilizing pressure reduction techniques and equipment as needed. Assists with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, W/C, lifts, showers, tubs, and vehicles. Carries out restorative and rehabilitative programs as care planned. Instructs, guides, and assists residents in self-help and uses of medical appliances to maintain function.
• Elimination:
  Assists residents to and from the bathroom. Keeps incontinent residents clean and dry. Uses appropriate incontinence product for each resident as specified in the care plan. Provides perineal care as care planned and as needed. Monitors genitourinary and gastrointestinal systems, document output every shift of bowels, if presence of urinary appliance, or as directed by a physician.
• Food Service Functions:
  Serve meals and ensure that appropriate textured meals/fluids are provided to residents as ordered. Participate in sanitation procedures to maintain food safety at all times. All dietary procedures are followed in accordance with established policies. Promotes a positive dining experience and assists residents with eating as needed. Record meal and fluid intakes. Provide clothing protectors as needed for dignity.
• Vital Signs and Weights:
  Weigh residents as ordered or per nursing judgment. Obtain vital signs as needed. Monitor for pain with resident interactions and report to the nurse.
• Housekeeping Functions:
  Address spills as they occur for safety and notify housekeeping for further intervention. Ensures resident rooms and common areas are clean and tidy. Wipe down countertops, sweep under bar area as needed, keep equipment put away, monitor for trip hazards, and ensure hand hygiene stations are functional with the needed sanitation product available for hand hygiene. Ensure that resident laundry is individually washed and dried utilizing laundry schedule and on as needed basis.
  
  Clean equipment- lifts, wheelchairs, walkers, and other devices on a routine basis.
• Activity Functions:
  Participate in the planning of resident activities within neighborhood. Participate in resident activities as able. Ensures residents are assisted to and from activities. Supervision provided to residents with electronic monitoring wandering devices to activity. Participate in care plan meetings quarterly.

• Previous experience in the medical field Preferred
• Provides resident comfort by answering call lights and attending to their needs in a timely manner; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability,…