CNA -Weekend Nights- Fulltime

Job Title:

Certified Nursing Assistant

Reports To:

Director of Nursing

FLSA Class:
Non-exempt

Clinical participant in the Person Centered Care operational team. Ensures activities of daily livingare delivered according to the wishes of each resident. Actively communicates in the care plan process via effective communication, implementation and evaluation of the care received by each resident.

• 1. Understand the importance of customer service and be willing to learn resident/relative satisfaction techniques as aparticipant in the Person Centered Care program. Accepts the role of a CNA in the ability ofeach resident to reach his/her highest level of physical and psychosocialwell-being. Every resident to be treatedin a dignified manner and as an individual.
• 2. Perform basic nursing skills safely and efficiently as outlined in facility educational program and nursing policies and procedures. Thoroughly understands policies concerning: prohibition of resident abuse; fall prevention, incontinence care, nutritional program;elopement protocols, skin care and pain management.
• 3. Document in the nursing assistant notesthe care and treatment provided to the resident and the resident's response orlack of response to care provided as required by the facility.
• 4. Complete food percentage, intake andoutput and bowel and bladder records.
• 5. Participate in fine dining experience for residents by ensuring each person is ready for meals, i.e. face and hands washed, teeth brushed, hair brushed, etc. Assist with transport to dining room as necessary.
  
  Assist dietary server with beverages, feed dependent residents andassist with transport of resident as needed from dining room.
• 6. Provide incontinent care as per facility protocol, with emphasis on toileting per each resident’s normal schedule and maintaining B&B continence.
• 7. Perform restorative nursing as outline din each resident’s plan of care.
  
  Includes ambulation, range of motion, etc.
• 8. Make sure all residents are offered nourishment during the day as requested and an evening snack if appropriate. Document intake of snacksif such is care planned. Ensure food and supplies in satellite kitchen are consumed by residents only.
• 9. Perform tub baths, showers or bed bathsas per the careplan and resident choice.
  
  Understand philosophy of Bathing Without a Battle and goal of bathing isfor resident to remain free from body odor and skin breakdown. Report any skin issues noted during bathingto charge nurse.
• 10. Turn and reposition all dependent bed andchair residents as required.
• 11. Empty and record all urinary drainage units.
• 12. Assist in dressing and undressing residents as necessary and assist residents in hygiene related activities including oral careand denture care. Allow residents tochoose clothing to be worn on adaily basis.
• 13. Understand every member of Person Centered Care team is responsible for assistance with activities. Any spare time of the CNA is spent with aresident, whether it be talking, reading,etc.
• 14. Assist residents in preparing for medical tests, social activities, appointments, etc.and assist in transporting residents to and from various location.
• 15. Provide post‑mortem care as instructed.
• 16. Report incidents, including near missesand changes in residents’ condition to charge nurse or Dir. of Nurses immediately.
• 17. Identify safety hazards and emergency situations, report them, and initiate corrective action. Understand it is the duty of each and every employee to know how to safely operate equipment.
• 18. Participate in resident care conferences,assist in completion of Minimum Data Set (MDS) and deliver nursing care as perthe careplan. Remind new employees ofthe important of careplans in the Person Centered Care operational model.
• 19. Follow…