Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Position Overview:

The primary responsibility of the Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) is to provide assigned residents with personal, quality care to meet their daily need in accordance with established federal, state and facility policies. The CNA will cooperate with co-workers and follow directions given by licensed nurses.

Essential Job Functions:

Assures residents’ privacy and dignity while providing care:

• Identify residents before providing care in accordance with their care plan
• Address residents by their name of choice when providing care

Interacts with residents in a warm, personal manner and provides a calm environment:

• Provide opportunities for the residents to talk, and listens attentively
• Warmly greet residents upon admission
• Introduce new residents to staff and other residents as appropriate
• Cue activities with residents in groups or individually

Assures the residents are clean and comfortable at all times:

• Assist the residents in feeding, dressing, grooming and toileting as necessary
• Provide baths weekly or more often as necessary

Assists residents in ambulating and transferring as necessary:

• Ambulate, transfer, provide range of motion, and apply adaptive equipment according to care plan
• Assist residents to activities and meals in a timely manner
• Assist with loading and unloading residents from vehicles as necessary

Provides nursing care for residents within scope of training and as directed by licensed nurses:

• Apply dressings and treatments and performs other duties as directed by licensed nurses
• Supervise exercise routines
• Take vital signs when needed

Provide nutrition and hydration to promote well-being of residents

• Provide fresh water and other fluids frequently and regularly
• Assist in preparing and serving food trays and snacks

Communicates residents’ care needs with peers and supervisors:

• Exchange/Obtain pertinent information regarding residents’ care at shift change
• Read and sign care plans regularly
• Promptly reports changes in residents’ conditions to licensed nurse
• Attend residents’ care plan meetings
• Attend and participates in stand-up meeting

Observes and record residents’ conditions and/or any incidents or accident:

• Record all information regarding care of residents in accordance with federal, state and facility polices
• Assist in completing incident and accident forms in accordance with federal, state, and facility polices

Assist maintaining an organized and clean area for residents and co-workers:

• Help to maintain a clean and organized room for residents
• Change bed lines weekly or more often as necessary
• Maintain clean and organized work area and equipment
• Observe all infection control polices according to federal, state, and facility polices

Assist in the admission process:

• Prepare residents’ room for admission
• Assist resident and family in completing inventory form
• Measure residents’ height and weight upon admission and a required thereafter.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must be sixteen (16) years of age.
• Must be Certified Nurse Aide in Kansas.
• Must be 18 years of age to operate or assist in the operation of most power-driven hoists-this includes those designed to lift and move patients.

Physical Requirements:

Medium Work – Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly.