Certified Nursing Assistant,Transitional Care - Knoxville, United States - Covenant Health

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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.

    Responsibilities
  • 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

    Minimum 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.