Certified Nurse Assistant - SW Health & Rehab - FT Varied Shift
Full Time
Adel, GA
Posted
Job description
DEPARTMENT: Southwell Health & Rehab
F ACILITY: Southwell Medical
WORK TYPE: Full Time
S HIFT: Day, Mid, or Night
SUMMARY:
The Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) is responsible for assisting with both clinical and clerical duties on the nursing unit. They are responsible for assisting the professional staff in delivery of quality care in a safe manner to a varied resident population, responsible for coordinating communications occurring at the Nurse’s Station while assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating resident care and the provision of safety assigned to patients. They provide customer service to patients, families, visitors, physicians, coworkers, and other medical and non-medical persons.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Assists residents/patients with ADL’s per the plan of care including but not limited to bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding, toileting, transferring and mobility.
- Answer patient call lights in timely manner.
- Protects patient’s rights by knocking before entering the room and by properly draping patients prior to a procedure.
- Accurately documents care.
- Takes vital signs and weights as ordered.
- Assists in the participation and removal of safety devices (i.e. side rails, footboards, etc.)
- Maintains bed alarms on those resident’s with bed alarms included on residents' plan of care.
- Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
- Understands and adheres to compliance standards as they appear in the Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
- Demonstrates age-specific skills as required by position.
- Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
- Attends all mandatory education programs.
- Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
- Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
- Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
- Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.
- Manages resources effectively.
- Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
- Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.
CREDENTIALS:
* Certified Nurse Aide from Credential source:
- Georgia Nurse Aid
COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:
* Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work, and achieves results with little oversight.
- Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities and works with a variety of situations, individuals, groups, and varying customer needs.
- Beside monitoring
- Basic Life Support certification
- Clinical Assessment
- Diplomatically handles challenging or tense interpersonal situations.
- Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
- Is reliable and trustworthy while performing work in a consistent and timely manner.
- Earns others’ trust and respect through consistent honesty and transparency in all interactions.
- Openness to different and new ways of doing things and willingness to modify one’s preferred way of doing things.
- Correctly interprets and follows instructions.
- Possess the technical knowledge necessary to safely and efficiently perform job.
- Medical terminology
- Conveys ideas and facts orally using language the audience will best understand.
- Proficient in safe patient care techniques
- Grasps the meaning of written information and applies it to work situations.
- Manages own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals.
- Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables.
- Helps create a work environment that embraces and appreciates diversity.
- Vital sign monitoring
Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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