Cna - Full Time - Days (56814)

Job Details
Job Location
Quinton - Dalton, GA
Position Type
Full Time
Job Shift
Days
Job Category
CNA/Nurse Tech/Patient Care Tech
Description
JOB SUMMARY
Provides each of your assigned patients with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the patient's assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisor.
Essential Skill/Knowledge Functions

• Provides colostomy care.
• Offers fluids at appropriate times (including routine ice and water rounds).
• Collects stool and urine samples.
• Provides after meal care (remove tray, brush teeth, wash face and hands, etc.).
• Practices proper body mechanics while moving/transferring patients.
• Distributes fresh water to patients and picks up used water pitchers.
• Provides range of motion exercises for patients.
• Assists patients to dining area for meals. May be required to assist in feeding of patients and documenting intake of nourishment.
• Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested.
• Recognizes and reports signs/symptoms of abuse and/or change in condition.
• Required to pass food trays to individual patients in accordance with diet cards on trays.
• Assists patients in and out of bed and into wheelchair with the correct use of the transfer belt.
• Strips bedding and replaces with clean linens.
• Identifies the four basic food groups on a sample breakfast, lunch and dinner meal.
• Provides for bowel and bladder training/retraining.
• Provides post mortem care as requested.
• Assists patients in dressing or undressing.
• Applies & releases restraints and provides exercise.
• Assists in personal grooming of patients, e.g., brushing hair, trimming fingernails and toenails, and shaving.
• Assists patients in using bathroom and/or bedpan and peri-care.
• Provides external/indwelling catheter care.
• Understands and utilizes care plans.
• Properly documents in accordance with established guidelines.
• Assists patients in bathing; to include bed baths, tub baths, and showers.
• Required to clean bedpans and empty catheter bags.
• Provides assistance with meals as requested (tray delivery, feeding, etc.).
• Turns patient intermittently of patient is bedridden due to illness.
• Takes vital signs of patients, e.g., temperature, blood pressure, and respiration and records information.
• Assists patients with walking (with or without assistive devices).
• Provides oral care and denture care.
• Documents and/or reports information regarding the patients health, I&O, any change of medical condition, and care given.
• Provides routine care for the bedfast patient (turning, etc.).
• Provides skin care.
• Provides care for the dying patient.
• Receives and gives reports on patients status or condition.
• Assists patients to and from activities as requested.

Essential Administrative Functions

• Participates in Nursing Center surveys (Licensure/JCAHO) and any subsequently required reports.
• Complies with Corporate Compliance Program.
• Attends and participates in continuing educational programs to keep abreast on changes in your field as well as to maintain current license/certification, as required.
• Honor patients rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property and civil rights, including the right to wage complaints.
• Reports job-related functions/tasks that involve occupational hazards including exposure to blood and body fluids and others as necessary.
• Complies with all Privacy & Security Programs.
• Follows established safety procedures regulations, to include fire protective/prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, etc.
• Follows established safety procedures when performing job tasks and/or working with equipment.
• Performs other related duties as necessary and as directed by supervisor.
• Attends and participates in mandatory in-services.

Essential General Functions

• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Professional Appearance

Communicates well with patients and family members providing warm and friendly greeting and an approachable attitude to family/visitors/patients and responds to expressed concerns while displaying a helpful, caring demeanor, answers questions when appropriate in a professional manner.
Qualifications
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
A high school diploma or its equivalent preferred. CNA Diploma from an accredited CNA Program required and as evidenced by primary source of verification.
Other Training, Skills And Experience Requirements
Should be a Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with the laws of this state as evidenced by primary source of verification. BLS preferred, but not required.
Physical Activity Requirements
Primary Physical Requirements:

• Lift 26 to 40 lbs.: Occasionally to frequently required when assisting an ambulatory patient in bathing or dressing.
• Kneeling: Occasionally may occur while bathing patient.
• Crouching: Required when putting on shoes and socks of patients, and also when making eye-to-eye contact while talking if patient is in a wheelchair.
• Other Physical Considerations:
• Push/Pull: 20 feet.
• Squatting: Occasionally may occur while bathing patient; also required when putting on shoes and socks of patients, and also when making eye-to-eye contact while talking if patient is in a wheelchair.
• Torquing: Not required.
• Carry over 40 lbs.: Occasionally to frequently required when transferring a non-ambulatory patient weighing between 100 and 160 pounds. Two aides are typically utilized when patient is unusually heavy or combative.
• Reach at shoulder height: Frequently may occur when assisting patients in eating, when changing bed linens, and when taking vital signs.
• Balancing: Not required.
• Handling: Constantly handling patients' personal items, blood pressure gauge, thermometer, and eating utensils.
• During an 8-hour day, Associate is required to:
• Grasping: Frequently grasping while transferring patient.
• Lift up to 10 lbs.: Occasionally required to lift medical charts, supplies, and patients' personal items, e.g., clothing and food items.
• Twisting: Occasionally may occur while transferring patient.
• Carry 11 to 25 lbs.: Occasionally may be required when lifting soiled bed linens and carrying to the utility area.
• Lift over 40 lbs.: Frequently required when transferring a non-ambulatory patient weighing between 100 and 160 pounds. Two aides are typically utilized when patient is unusually heavy or combative.
• Fingering: Occasionally occurs while documenting patients medical charts.
• Lift 11 to 25 lbs.: Occasionally may be required when lifting soiled bed linens.
• Reach above shoulder height: 4 feet.
• Carry 26 to 40 lbs.: Occasionally to frequently required when assisting an ambulatory patient in bathing or dressing.
• Controls & Equipment: Blood pressure gauge, thermometer, etc.
• Carry up to 10 lbs.: Occasionally required to lift medical charts, supplies, and patients' personal items, e.g., clothing and food items.
• Reach below shoulder height: Occasionally occurs while assisting patients with peri-care and bathing.
• Hand Manipulation:
• Climbing: Not required.
• Bending: Occasionally occurs while taking vital signs, assisting patient in bathing, providing peri-care, etc.

Consecutive Hours Total Hours
Sit 1 1
Stand 3 3
Walk 3 4
Work Surface: Varies from carpeting, linoleum, and tile. When seated, typically an office-type chair.
Cognitive And Sensory Requirements

• Tasting & Smelling: Not required
• Talking: Necessary for communicating with others.
• Sight: Necessary for doing job correctly and effectively.
• Hearing: Constantly required when communicating with patients, visitors, and staff.

EQUIPMENT USED
Blood pressure gauge, thermometer, etc.
Summary Of Occupational Exposures
Tasks assigned to this position may involve potential and/or direct exposure to blood, body fluids, infectious disease, air contaminants and hazardous chemicals. May be subject to hostile and emotionally upset patients, family members, associates and visitors.
Other Considerations And Requirements
In this position, the associate is required to be on his or her feet continually throughout the day. In a full-time nonrestrictive basis, the associate must be able to lift at least 40 pounds of weight, which is required when transferring a patient from a bed to a wheelchair. A transfer belt is necessary and required when transferring any patient. This is for the safety of not only the patient, but also the aide. Other nurses are available to assist with heavier patients as needed.
Drug-Free Workplace