Certified Nursing Assistant in Training - Asheville

Job purpose

• Provides each of the assigned patients with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the patient’s assessment and care plan, and as directed by the nurse supervisor.
• KEY
• RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Provides care ensuring patient/resident safety 2. Applies & releases restraints, and provides exercise 3. Assist Residents in and out of bed and into wheelchair with the correct use of the transfer belt and practices proper body mechanics while moving/transferring patients 4.
• Assists
• Residents in bathing: to include bed baths, tub baths, and showers 5. Assists Residents in dressing or undressing, and personal grooming e.g., oral/denture care, brushing hair, trimming fingernails and toenails, skin care and shaving 6. Assists Residents to and from activities as requested 7. Assists Residents to dining area for meals; passes food trays to individual Residents in accordance with diet cards on tray and needs; documents intake of nourishment, and can identify the four basic food groups on a sample breakfast, lunch, and dinner Tray 8. Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested; understands and utilizes care plans 9. Cleans bedpans and empty catheter bags, provides external/indwelling catheter care, provides incontinent care as need for Residents. 10. Offers fluids at appropriate times (including routine ice and water rounds) and distributes fresh water to patients and picks up used water pitchers 11. Properly documents in accordance with established guidelines; receives and gives reports on patient’s status or condition and notify nurse of any changes in resident condition. 12. Reports skin irritation around ostomy bag to the Charge Nurse, Report’s problems with ostomy bag to the Charge Nurse 13. Provides range of motion exercises for residents 14. Provides routine care for the bedfast patient; turns residents intermittently if patient is bedridden due to illness 15. Recognizes and reports signs/ symptoms of abuse Charge Nurse/Administrator, and identifies and reports change in condition to Charge Nurse 16. Removes bedding and replaces with clean linens per schedule or condition, and as needed 17. Takes vital signs of patient, e.g., temperature, blood pressure, and respiration and records information and documents/reports information regarding the patient’s health, I&O, any change of medical condition, and care given
• Knowledge,
• SKILLS,
• Abilities:
• Communicates well with patients/residents/clients and family members providing warm and friendly greeting and an approachable demeanor to families, visitors, patients/residents/clients