TRC-CNA (noc shift, full time)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Nursing Aide

Department: Nursing

FLSA Classification: Non-exempt

Reports to: Director of Nursing

Overview of the position:

The Nursing Aide role functions to provide a safe and comfortable environment and patient care. Assist with the RN on duty and perform specific nursing care tasks.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Administrative Functions:

• Monitors the condition of the patient while being moved and reports any manifest change in condition to a registered nurse or physician.

• Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration of patients, and reports adverse vital signs or observed abnormal stress or discomfort.

• Helps patients as may be required in all of the usual activities of daily living, such as eating, brushing teeth, dressing, undressing, and eliminating.

• Moves patients on beds or stretchers from one ward to another or to operating or examining rooms.

• Contributes to patient comfort and well-being by rearranging bedding and changing linen, serving and removing meal trays, and responding to requests for personal services, such as filling water containers, making mechanical adjustments of bed, providing assistance in changing position in bed, furnishing bedpans and urinals, and giving shampoos and back rubs.

• Assists nurses in charge and physicians by positioning and holding patients for examination or treatment.

• Turns and positions patients and places supports to prevent pressure sores.

• Assures a safe and sanitary environment for the patient by cleaning up minor spills in kitchen and dining areas, by making beds, cribs, and bassinets, and by maintaining ward, sleeping quarters, and recreational areas in a clean and orderly condition.

• Encourages ambulatory patients to participate fully in their dressing, feeding, and hygiene.

• Supervises children in recreational activities and social relationships.

• Daily updates on patient’s records.

• Good customer service skills/etiquette. Tact and warmth when dealing with family and residents.

• Ability to work within a team.

• Empathy for the elderly.

• Ability to work systematically and without continuous supervision.

Records Management Functions, Admissions, Discharge:

• Initiate/coordinate admission process

• Complete admission checklist

• Conduct tours of the facility with prospective admissions

• Prepare paperwork for discharge

• Assemble record from the nursing station and the overflow files in established discharge order

• Performs additional duties and assignments, as requested.

During the Resident's stay:

• Thin in-house records in accordance with the written policy and procedure and files in discharge chart order for the in-house overflow file.

• Maintain in-house chart appearance and organization.

• Maintain a monitoring system to assure telephone orders and other information are signed and returned by the physician or other professionals.

• File all incoming clinical information in the in-house records on a daily basis.

• Check telephone orders daily for transcription on physician’s orders, medications and treatment records, care plans, etc.

• Monitor timeliness of physician’s visits on a monthly basis in conjunction with the manager of health information services.

• Prepare paperwork for transfer or referrals.

• Photocopy documents.

• Act as a liaison between Nursing and other departments.

• Protect the privacy and security of health information and follows confidentiality and release of information procedures.

• Audits of resident’s records as requested.

• Follow the safety guidelines and regulations set forth by the facility.

• Follows emergency action plan.