Certified Nurse Assistant Jobs

DEPARTMENT: SOUTHWELL HEALTH AND REHABILITATION

F ACILITY: Southwell Medical

WORK TYPE: Full Time

S HIFT: Varied

SUMMARY:

The Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) is responsible for assisting with both clinical and clerical duties on the nursing unit. They are responsible for assisting the professional staff in delivery of quality care in a safe manner to a varied resident population, responsible for coordinating communications occurring at the Nurse’s Station while assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating resident care and the provision of safety assigned to patients. They provide customer service to patients, families, visitors, physicians, coworkers, and other medical and non-medical persons.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Assists residents/patients with ADL’s per the plan of care including but not limited to bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding, toileting, transferring and mobility.

• Manages resources effectively.
• Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
• Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
• Answer patient call lights in timely manner.
• Maintains bed alarms on those resident’s with bed alarms included on residents' plan of care.
• Protects patient’s rights by knocking before entering the room and by properly draping patients prior to a procedure.
• Takes vital signs and weights as ordered.
• Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
• Attends all mandatory education programs.
• Assists in the participation and removal of safety devices (i.e. side rails, footboards, etc.)
• Accurately documents care.
• Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.
• Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
• Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
• Understands and adheres to compliance standards as they appear in the Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
• Demonstrates age-specific skills as required by position.
• Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
• Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.

CREDENTIALS:

* Certified Nurse Aide from Credential source:

• Georgia Nurse Aid

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:

* Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work, and achieves results with little oversight.

• Conveys ideas and facts orally using language the audience will best understand.
• Vital sign monitoring
• Basic Life Support certification
• Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables.
• Possess the technical knowledge necessary to safely and efficiently perform job.
• Medical terminology
• Manages own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals.
• Grasps the meaning of written information and applies it to work situations.
• Helps create a work environment that embraces and appreciates diversity.
• Is reliable and trustworthy while performing work in a consistent and timely manner.
• Correctly interprets and follows instructions.
• Proficient in safe patient care techniques
• Diplomatically handles challenging or tense interpersonal situations.
• Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities and works with a variety of situations, individuals, groups, and varying customer needs.
• Clinical Assessment
• Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Beside monitoring
• Earns others’ trust and respect through consistent honesty and transparency in all interactions.
• Openness to different and new ways of doing things and willingness to modify one’s preferred way of doing things.

Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.