Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) Hospice House

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Full time benefited position Monday - Friday I 3:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

At Granite VNA’s Hospice House, every day is an opportunity to make a profound difference in someone’s life. As a Licensed Nursing Assistant, you’ll be part of a compassionate, skilled team dedicated to bringing comfort, dignity, and peace to patients and their families during life’s most tender moments. If you’re ready to work in an environment where your presence matters as much as your skills, we’d love to welcome you to our Hospice House team!

Why Choose Granite VNA:

• A supportive leadership team who leads with compassion and integrity
• Autonomy and purpose
• Collaboration with a team full of dedicated, knowledgeable and supportive professionals
• Competitive pay, mileage reimbursement and generous benefits
• Ongoing professional development and opportunities for career growth
• At Granite VNA, we care for our team the same way we care for our patients—by creating a safe, respectful, and supportive environment. That’s why we offer AVADE Training for field staff and Armed Intruder Training for team members in other roles.
• Granite VNA embroidered apparel so you can proudly represent our organization in the community.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Paraprofessional Manager, the Granite VNA Hospice House LNA delivers age appropriate quality of life care to residents in facility settings utilizing standard nursing assistant best practice within scope of practice defined by the NH Board of Nursing. The Hospice House LNA will effectively interact with residents, family members, facility staff and other healthcare team members while maintaining professional standards.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrates professional, emotionally appropriate behavior that is consistently supportive and responsive to other individuals with whom the LNA has contact in the course of their work.
• Follows care plan in providing basic care and services to the client including assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADL): walking, bathing, shaving, mouth care, grooming, eating, transfers, and management of incontinence.
• Communicates with nurses involved in the resident’s care plan; observes, records and reports changes in resident’s condition, status, or other pertinent information to the nursing staff clearly, concisely and in a timely manner.
• Documents care provided to the resident accurately in accordance to the agency’s guidelines.
• Does laundry, housekeeping and maintenance to assure a safe, orderly, clean and comfortable environment.
• Provides supervision to residents with cognitive deficit.
• Communicates to the Operations Coordinator to arrange to have furniture/equipment fixed when needed. Remove the equipment from the patient care area.
• Ensures residents have the opportunity to engage in cultural, spiritual, physical, political, social and intelligent activities as the residents’ desire.
• Maintains calm, rational manner when dealing with others, even in situations involving conflict or crisis.
• Works independently on individual assignments yet support the needs of the total work unit.
• Complies with the Agency’s Paraprofessional Commitment to Compliance with regards to the submission of visit documentation and time entry in accordance with agency time frames. Complies with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) scheduling requirements.
• Communicates clearly and courteously with others including client, family members, and other agency staff.
• Practices safe work habits and proper body mechanics.

Other Job Functions

• Aids and support to volunteers
• Respect volunteers as an integral part of the Hospice Team
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Meets the Agency-required Hospice and Licensed Nursing Assistant education requirements annually.
• Completes core licensed nursing assistant competencies annually.
• Performs job duties in a safe manner in order to prevent injury to yourself and others

1. High School Diploma/GED, accompanied by current New Hampshire LNA license
2. One year of recent experience as a Licensed Nursing Assistant