Hospice Aide Bay

Job Details

• Job Location:
  
  Panama City, FL 32405
• Position Type:
  Full Time
• Travel Percentage:
  Road Warrior
• Job Shift: Day
• Job Category:
  Clinical

Hospice Aide (CNA) – Home Care
-FT HHA covering 2A counties

Bringing Comfort, Dignity & Compassion Home

At Big Bend Hospice, home is wherever our patients call home.

As a Hospice Aide (CNA) – Home Care, you’ll travel throughout the community providing compassionate, hands-on personal care to hospice patients in their own living environments. Working under the direction and supervision of a licensed nurse, you’ll help patients remain comfortable, safe, respected, and supported throughout their end-of-life journey.

This is more than assisting with daily care. You’ll build relationships with patients and families, notice meaningful changes, provide reassurance, and help preserve dignity during one of life’s most vulnerable seasons.

If you’re a compassionate CNA who wants your work to have purpose, we’d love to meet you.

• Assist patients with bathing, showers, bed baths, and personal hygiene.
• Assist with dressing and undressing.
• Provide oral and denture care.
• Assist with grooming needs, including hair care and shaving.
• Provide skin care and apply approved non-medicated topical products as directed by the licensed nurse.
• Make beds and help maintain a clean, comfortable patient environment.
• Provide appropriate comfort measures to promote relaxation, dignity, and patient well-being.
• Assist patients with meals and feeding when needed.
• Safely reposition, move, and transfer patients using proper body mechanics and assistance when necessary.
• Assist with established supportive devices as directed and within the CNA scope of practice.

• Assist patients with toileting, bedside commodes, bedpans, and urinals.
• Provide appropriate perineal and incontinence care.
• Assist with urinary drainage bags and external catheter care within the CNA scope of practice.
• Observe and report bowel and urinary changes as appropriate.
• Provide established ostomy care as directed and within scope of practice.
• Provide all personal care with sensitivity, privacy, and respect for the patient’s dignity.

• Build positive, respectful relationships with patients, caregivers, and families.
• Follow the individualized Hospice Plan of Care established for each patient.
• Observe patients for changes in condition, comfort, behavior, or symptoms.
• Promptly communicate changes or concerns to the supervising licensed nurse.
• Pay close attention to patient comfort, pain, positioning, medications, and personal needs.
• Help ensure necessary supplies and durable medical equipment are available and functioning appropriately.
• Assist with routine oxygen-equipment tasks assigned within your role.
• Reinforce patient and caregiver education related to hygiene and personal care.
• Reinforce safe repositioning and comfort measures.
• Support patients and caregivers with appropriate bowel and bladder care education.
• Listen compassionately and provide a reassuring presence for patients and families.

• Observe and report changes in patient condition, unusual signs or symptoms, and care provided.
• Obtain and record assigned vital signs.
• Promptly report vital signs or observations outside established parameters to the RN.
• Complete required documentation accurately and on time.
• Report incidents, accidents, injuries, or safety concerns promptly.
• Contact the supervising nurse whenever a patient need or task falls outside your role or requires additional clinical guidance.
• Communicate respectfully and professionally with patients, caregivers, nurses, and other members of the hospice team.

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