cna-bu - Oak Ridge - Covenant Health Inc.

Description

Certified Nursing Assistant Job Description

We are seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to join our Cardiology Unit at Methodist Medical Center. As a CNA, you will work under the supervision of an RN or Team Leader, assisting with direct patient care and performing tasks as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Take and record vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths, and use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transport when necessary.
• Attend to nutritional needs of patients, which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
• Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
• Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins and record intake and output.
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
• Provide general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
• Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
• Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimen as ordered.
• Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
• May perform phlebotomy (requires additional training), including correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
• May perform EKG (requires special training).
• Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
• Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
• Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
• Employ all established infection control policies, including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures, and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
• Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
• Gather equipment for O2 set up, check O2 for connection and proper placement.
• Check for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
• Ambulate patients with oxygen.
• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.

Requirements:

• Hospital experience preferred.
• Medical terminology a plus.
• Must be able to operate computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.
• Must have understanding and knowledge of patient care which may be appropriately delegated to nursing assistants.
• CPR is required (if not currently certified, must be certified or recertified during the orientation period). A Tennessee State CNA certification is also required.