Hospice Nursing CNA - PRN

Schedule: PRN, minimum requirement of 2 shifts in a 4-week period (Monday-Sunday, anytime)

This position carries out duties assigned by the RN in order to increase the level of patient comfort, maintain good personal hygiene and maintain a safe environment for the patient/family/caregiver.

Patient Hygiene (bathe, mouthcare, keep patient dry, and more)

Help with passing out trays for meals

Documenting everything you have done

Reports changes in patient's condition, concerns about patient and/or family to appropriate nursing staff in a timely fashion.

Participates in interdisciplinary team conferences, shift report, staff training, agency and departmental meetings and other related activities.

We are allowed to do more one-on-one care with patient and family than at hospitals or nursing homes. We have time to sit and talk to the patient and families, help them go through whatever they are going through, and give them they respect and care they deserve.

We have the ability to be with people in their last hours/days, be a constant for them, and show them that we care about them - some patients may not have family.

In hospice care, you are dealing with grief. Many of our employees find that what helps them on those hard days is to find joy in the fact that they were able to be there to comfort that patient, help them feel cared for, and make a difference in the time they had with them.

Satisfactory completion of an approved nurse aid training and competency evaluation program. Hospice of the Piedmont (North Carolina)