cna-bu - Oak Ridge - Covenant Health

Description

Certified Nursing Assistant | Non-Certified Nursing Assistant, Oncology

Full-time position available with a 72-hour pay period and day shift schedule.

About Methodist Medical Center

We are one of the first hospitals in East Tennessee to offer cutting-edge treatments and technologies for various specialties, including Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, and Vascular care.

• 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

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) will function as a direct patient caregiver, performing tasks to assist registered nurses. The CNA will provide hands-on care, assistance with daily living activities, and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of an RN or Team Leader.

Responsibilities

• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transport when necessary.
• Attends to nutritional needs of patient 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
• Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
• Ambulate patients with oxygen.
• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.

Qualifications

We are seeking candidates with:

• No minimum education specified.
• Minimum experience: Hospital experience preferred.
• Licensure Requirement: Must have and maintain Tennessee State CNA certification.