Healthcare Assistant – Nursing

Sign on Bonus Available

Department:
Medical Surgical

Schedule/Status:
Varies;
Full Time

Standard Hours/Week: 36

Under the supervision of the RN/LPN, the C.N.A. serves as partner in the care of patients for the purpose of fulfilling our shared mission "Healing Experiences For Everyone All The Time®".

The C.N.A. care partner is a member of a multidisciplinary team responsible for performing multiple duties that require providing safe, quality, healing patient care. The position responds to patient requests and performs other nurse directed functions with clinical excellence, care and compassion; demonstrates competency in all procedures within scope of practice, as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.

• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by assisting with bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom or bedside commode; helping with showers and baths; changing linen and patient gowns.
• Provides activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals; emptying trash.
• Checking vital signs and daily weight.
• Recording intake and output.
• Applies skin barrier medicated creams.
• Blood glucose testing.
• Foley removal.
• Discontinuation of a saline lock.
• Ice packs, heat treatments, etc.
• Observes and reports to the primary nurse any symptoms or changes in patient condition.
• Accurately and timely documents patient care tasks into the electronic medical record.
• Assists in the admission.