- Follows established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program and safety standards.
- Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
- Encourage residents to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
- Ambulate and assist residents in and out of bed, and into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
- Attends to nutritional needs of residents which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
- Provides 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. Change disposable briefs.
- 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 residents; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; and application/removal TED hose 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 residents' plan of care.
- Promptly answer resident call lights and respond to resident requests.
- Report significant changes in residents' condition to LPN or RN.
- Maintain clean and orderly resident and work environment.
- Document/maintain resident record as appropriate.
- Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
- Checks for proper functioning of equipment at resident bedside.
- Ambulate resident with oxygen.
- Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
- Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
- Demonstrates ability to perform skills on CNA checklist.
- Participates in the plan of nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, socio-economic, and spiritual needs of the residents.
- Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned (not to exceed scope of practice). Qualifications
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Description
Position Summary:
Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist LPNs and RNs. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL's and specified technical tasks for a group of residents under the supervision of the charge nurse. CNA's are not allowed, by practice standards, to perform any invasive procedure or any application of topical medications.
ResponsibilitiesMinimum Education:
None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
None.
Licensure Requirement:
CNA certification from state of Tennessee required (or can be transferred from another state within 4 months). CPR required.
