cna-bu - Oak Ridge - Covenant Health

Description

Certified Nursing Assistant | Non-Certified Nursing Assistant, Oncology

Part time, 48 Hours per pay period, Day shift.

Methodist Medical Center is a hospital with more than 30 specialties. We offer cutting-edge treatments and technologies for various medical conditions.

• 283 licensed beds
• 25 ICU beds
• 12 intermediate care beds
• 38 emergency suites
• 2 cath labs
• 8 LDRP suites
• Over 250 active and courtesy physicians
• Over 800 employees

Job Objectives:

To assist registered nurses in patient care by performing tasks such as taking vital signs, ambulating patients, and providing personal care.

Responsibilities:

• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
• 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.
• Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
• Provides 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.
• 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) and 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.
• Gathers equipment for O2 set up, checks O2 for connection and proper placement, and checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
• Ambulate patients with oxygen and set up suction equipment.
• Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
• Fulfills education requirements, works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• No specific education required; however, a high school diploma or equivalent certificate may be given preference.
• 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.
• Nurse Assistant Non-Certified: CPR is required; Certified Nursing Assistant: Must have and maintain Tennessee State CNA certification.