Certified Nursing Assistant (LTC, Float)

Schedule

• 12 hours shift Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
• KEY
• ACCOUNTABILITIES: 1. Performs delegated patient care activities using evidence-based practice and specific competencies for the patient population served. 2. Assists in meeting the care needs of the patient in collaboration with the care team to ensure quality, cost-effective safe patient care practices. 3. Demonstrates clinical expertise in the provision of care in the clinical specialty assigned and performs all functions of the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), which are age appropriate, developmentally sensitive, and culturally specific. 4. Respectfully addresses situations or decisions to ensure patient concerns and needs are met. 5. Identifies ways to improve the patient’s experience of care, streamline care processes, and lower costs to improve patient, family, and team member satisfaction. 6. Identifies and escalates patient risk to prevent crises. 7. Demonstrates professional and therapeutic relationships with patients, families, team members, and providers. 8. Reinforces patient education to improve care outcomes and safe patient practices. 9. Performs and documents patient cares including personal hygiene, mobility, activities of daily living, and vital signs, and ensures the care environment promotes patient safety. 10. Provides care to patients including collecting body fluids for testing and cultures, administering medications if applicable, and providing patient care as defined within the nursing plan of care and/or physician orders, within the scope of the CNA role.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• Valid State of Wisconsin CNA Certification
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) or CPR certification for healthcare providers PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Ability to move freely (standing, stooping, walking, bending, pushing, and pulling) and lift up to a maximum of Fifty (50) pounds without assistance
• Job classification is exposed to blood borne pathogens (blood or bodily fluids) while performing job duties
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to perform patient care procedures

Work environment

• Frequent exposure to sharp objects and instruments
• Occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock
• Occasional high noise level in work environment
• Standing and/or walking for extended periods of time
• Transporting, transferring, positioning patients and/or equipment from one location to another; little likelihood for injury if proper body mechanics and procedures are followed
• Possible exposure to communicable diseases, hazardous materials, and pharmacological agents
• Occasional contact with aggressive and or combative patients
• Hours: 10PM-6:30AM .
• Scheduled
• Weekly
• Hours: 8
• Scheduled
• FTE: 0.2
• Location:
• Peabody -
• Appleton,Wisconsin
• Overtime
• Exempt:
• No
• Worker
• Shift
• Details: Days