Certified Nursing Assistant

JOB REQUIREMENTS: This position provides personal care for residents to assure the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times within a safe environment; assists with activities of daily living, offers emotional and social support, and attends to residents' overall Physical Comfort. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS - Assists With Implementing Each individual's Service Plan, therapeutic physical/ psychological care, and increasing independent vocational and leisure skills. - Assists with carrying out restorative plans. - Maintains documentation of behavioral Symptoms And Other Data Collection Requirements In Accordance With Service Plan. - Assists and promotes independence with cares (including personal hygiene), ambulating, preparation of meals, doing personal laundry and doing household tasks. - Functions as an integral member of the team providing appropriate interventions during medical, behavioral, and/or facility emergencies. - Provides personal hygiene including bathing (tub, shower, bed bath), oral care, skin and nail care and hand washing. - Completes resident grooming including hair care, shaving, dressing and weighing. Encourages residents toward independent personal care. - Assists with toileting including bowel and bladder retraining and perinea care. - Performs and assists with mobility, transferring, ambulation, positioning and range of motion per the care plan. - Documents accurately all cares given, including dietary intake and output, temperature, weight, , using approved abbreviations and descriptive terms. - Serves residents their meals; motivates and assists them with intake of nourishment and fluids. - Reports to supervisor for written and verbal assignments which include daily use of care plans for assigned residents before initiating care. - Participates in the planning of resident care through shift reports and resident care staffing meetings when assigned. - Informs verbally and/or submits in writing any observations and changes in a resident for the licensed nurse or supervisor to evaluate, including dietary intake. - Answer all call signals and requests of residents immediately. - Encourages/assist residents in keeping their rooms clean and orderly; assists with making beds. - Maintains unit in a clean and orderly manner. - Keeps all resident's personal belongings and equipment clean. - Escorts residents to appointments and/or therapy departments as scheduled. - Participates in unit activity programs planned for residents as needed. - Performs a total inventory of all resident's possessions on admission, discharge, or transfer. - Ensures all resident's possessions are properly labeled. - Responds to resident emergency including bleeding, falls, seizures, and performance of Heimlich maneuver. - Assists with post-mortem care as assigned. - Performs housekeeping and laundry responsibilities as needed. - Assists with the training and orientation of new Household Assistants. - Provides backup assistance to other department personnel as needed. - Other duties as assigned. ***** OTHER EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS: - Must be 16 years of age or older. - Successful completion of CNA training course. ***** #J-18808-Ljbffr The ClearView Group - Solutions for Health