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Nursing Assistant

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care in accordance with our established nursing care procedures, and as may be directed by your supervisors.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

Administrative functions such as recording information on flow sheets, using wristbands to identify residents, reporting accidents, using authorized abbreviations, and reporting changes in resident condition.

Admission, transfer, and discharge functions including preparing resident rooms, greeting and escorting residents, introducing residents to others, making residents comfortable, inventorying personal possessions, storing clothing, assisting with packing and transportation, and assisting with loading and unloading.

Personnel functions such as following work assignments, performing tasks according to policies, notifying the facility of absences, reporting complaints and grievances, cooperating with inter-department personnel, creating a positive environment, and meeting with nursing personnel to identify and correct problem areas.

Personal nursing care functions including participating in nursing report, assisting with dental and mouth care, bathing residents, giving backrubs, assisting with dressing and undressing, assisting with hair care, assisting with nail care, shaving male residents, keeping female residents clean shaven, keeping residents dry, making beds, positioning bedfast residents, changing bed linens, putting extra covers on beds, assisting with bowel and bladder functions, maintaining intake and output records, keeping incontinent residents clean and dry, checking bowel movements, collecting specimens, assisting with medical tests, assisting with activity and social programs, assisting with lifting, turning, moving, and positioning residents, answering resident calls, assisting residents to work with or without self-help devices, performing restorative and rehabilitative procedures, providing eye and ear care, measuring and recording temperatures, pulse, and respirations, weighing and measuring residents, assisting with physical examinations, assisting with the care of dying residents, providing post-mortem care, and checking residents to assure personal care needs are met.

Special nursing care functions including observing and reporting pressure areas and skin breakdowns, providing daily perineal care, turning bedfast residents, performing diabetic urine testing, observing disoriented and comatose residents, watching for changes in room conditions, turning medications over to the Charge/Staff Nurse, and providing residents with Reality Orientation.

Food service functions such as preparing residents for meals, serving food trays, assisting with feeding, assisting residents with identifying food arrangements, recording food/fluid intake, keeping water pitchers clean and filled, serving snacks, performing after meal care, and checking rooms for food articles.

Staff development including attending training and educational classes, participating in orientation programs, and following safety and sanitation procedures.

Safety and sanitation including restraining residents, maintaining records of restraints, keeping floors dry, storing supplies and equipment, following smoking regulations, keeping call systems accessible, reporting hazardous conditions, following safety precautions, washing hands, cleaning equipment, performing housekeeping duties, and following isolation precautions.

Equipment and supply functions including using trained equipment, operating equipment safely, using necessary equipment and supplies, reporting defective equipment, and informing the Charge/Staff Nurse of equipment and supply needs.

Care plan functions including reviewing care plans daily.

Residents’ rights functions including maintaining confidentiality, treating residents fairly and with respect, ensuring privacy, knocking before entering rooms, and reporting grievances and complaints.

Working conditions include working in well-lit and ventilated areas, sitting, standing, bending, lifting, and moving intermittently, being subject to interruptions, interacting with residents, personnel, visitors, and government agencies, being willing to work beyond normal hours, attending educational programs, being subject to falls, burns, odors, exposure to infectious waste and diseases, maintaining liaison with department supervisors, and being able to move, speak, see, hear, cope with stress, function independently, relate to ill and disabled people, lift 50 pounds, and be in good general health.

Education requirements include an 8th-grade education and being a Certified Nursing Assistant or enrolled in a Certified Nursing Assistant Training Program.

Experience includes none; on-the-job training.

Specific requirements include writing legible English, making independent decisions, dealing tactfully with others, being at least 18 years old, working harmoniously, having patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, enthusiasm, seeking new methods, and being able to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, and hostile people.