Trc-Cna (Noc shift)

Job Description

Nursing Aide

Department: Nursing

FLSA Classification: Non-exempt

Reports to: Director of Nursing

Overview of the position

The Nursing Aide role functions to provide a safe and comfortable environment and patient care. Assist with the RN on duty and perform specific nursing care tasks.

Duties: and Responsibilities:

Administrative Functions

• Monitors the condition of the patient while being moved and reports any manifest change in condition to a registered nurse or physician.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration of patients, and reports adverse vital signs or observed abnormal stress or discomfort.
• Helps patients as may be required in all of the usual activities of daily living, such as eating, brushing teeth, dressing, undressing, and eliminating.
• Moves patients on beds or stretchers from one ward to another or to operating or examining rooms.
• Contributes to patient comfort and well-being by rearranging bedding and changing linen, serving and removing meal trays, and responding to requests for personal services, such as filling water containers, making mechanical adjustments of bed, providing assistance in changing position in bed, furnishing bedpans and urinals, and giving shampoos and back rubs.
• Assists nurses in charge and physicians by positioning and holding patients for examination or treatment.
• Turns and positions patients and places supports to prevent pressure sores.
• Assures a safe and sanitary environment for the patient by cleaning up minor spills in kitchen and dining areas, by making beds, cribs, and bassinets, and by maintaining ward, sleeping quarters, and recreational areas in a clean and orderly condition.
• Encourages ambulatory patients to participate fully in their dressing, feeding, and hygiene.
• Supervises children in recreational activities and social relationships.
• Daily updates on patient’s records.
• Good customer service skills/etiquette. Tact and warmth when dealing with family and residents.