Cna - Full Time - Days (57398)

Job Details
Job Location
Regency - 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

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

Essential Administrative Functions

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

Essential General Functions

• Professional Appearance
• Attendance
• Punctuality

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:

• Torquing: Not required.
• Bending: Occasionally occurs while taking vital signs, assisting patient in bathing, providing peri-care, etc.
• During an 8-hour day, Associate is required to:
• Reach below shoulder height: Occasionally occurs while assisting patients with peri-care and bathing.
• Handling: Constantly handling patients' personal items, blood pressure gauge, thermometer, and eating utensils.
• 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.
• Push/Pull: 20 feet.
• Hand Manipulation:
• Lift 26 to 40 lbs.: Occasionally to frequently required when assisting an ambulatory patient in bathing or dressing.
• Carry up to 10 lbs.: Occasionally required to lift medical charts, supplies, and patients' personal items, e.g., clothing and food items.
• Controls & Equipment: Blood pressure gauge, thermometer, etc.
• Reach above shoulder height: 4 feet.
• Twisting: Occasionally may occur while transferring patient.
• Lift 11 to 25 lbs.: Occasionally may be required when lifting soiled bed linens.
• Climbing: Not required.
• 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.
• Carry 26 to 40 lbs.: Occasionally to frequently required when assisting an ambulatory patient in bathing or dressing.
• 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.
• Fingering: Occasionally occurs while documenting patients medical charts.
• Balancing: Not required.
• Kneeling: Occasionally may occur while bathing patient.
• 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.
• 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.
• Reach at shoulder height: Frequently may occur when assisting patients in eating, when changing bed linens, and when taking vital signs.
• Other Physical Considerations:
• Carry 11 to 25 lbs.: Occasionally may be required when lifting soiled bed linens and carrying to the utility area.

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

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

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