Cna - Full Time - Days (58694)

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

Essential Administrative Functions

• Attends and participates in mandatory in-services.
• Honor patients rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property and civil rights, including the right to wage complaints.
• 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.
• 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.
• Follows established safety procedures regulations, to include fire protective/prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, etc.
• 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.
• Performs other related duties as necessary and as directed by supervisor.

Essential General Functions

• Punctuality
• Attendance
• 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:

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

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

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

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