CNA's - Evening and Night Shift

CNA's - 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Nursing Assistant works under the guidance of the Director of Nursing and supervision of the licensed nurse to provide direct resident care. The Nursing Assistant will serve as a team member to promote optimal resident care.

REPORTS TO: Director of Nursing. In the absence of the Director of Nursing, this position reports to the Assistant Director of Nursing.

SUPERVISES: None

QUALIFICATIONS:

Training and Registration Required:

• Successful completion of a state approved nursing assistant long term care training program/testing with current listing in good standing on the Minnesota Department of Health Nursing Assistant Registry.
• Eligibility for employment after criminal background study, per guidelines of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality with all information relating to residents.
• Ability to manage own time in order to accomplish assigned duties.
• Ability to competently perform Nursing Assistant skills.

FUNDAMENTAL JOB DUTIES:

Care Delivery

• Resident
• Provide direct resident care in accordance with the philosophy, policies and
• Procedures of the Nursing Department.
• Use knowledge of resident rights in all resident situations.
• Complete duties identified in each resident care plan. Duties include but are not limited to:
  • Bathing residents (bedbath, tub, shower, AM/PM cares)
  • Feeding residents (food, fluids)
  • Toileting residents per directions in care plan
  • Performing perineal care
  • Performing grooming activities (hair care, nail care, foot care, oral care, shaving facial hair)
  • Shampooing resident’s hair
  • Measuring intake and output
  • Transferring residents utilizing appropriate supportive devices (transfer belt, mechanical lift, pivot board, sliding board)
  • Assisting residents with ambulation using transfer belt unless resident is independent with full weight bearing ability
  • Turning and positioning residents using precautions as identified by the Rehabilitation Department
  • Performing active and passive range of motion exercises
  • Making occupied and unoccupied beds
  • Weighing residents
  • Dressing and undressing (including footwear)
  • Care for skin
• Report to station charge nurse:
  • Changes in residents’ status (physical and/or behavioral)
  • Residents’ responses to care
  • Unusual occurrences or observations
  • Problems with completion of assignment
  • When ready to leave at end of shift
• Complete required documentation

  Environment

• Answer any resident’s call light promptly.
• Plan/assist with transportation of any resident to activities and therapies.
• Maintain residents’ rooms/equipment (clean, orderly, safe).
• Maintain adequate supplies in residents’ rooms needed to complete cares.
  Safety
• Follow facility emergency plans during drills and in the event of an emergency.
• Follow Nursing Department policy for wearing and using transfer belt.
• Use mechanical lift as defined in individual care plan.
• Engage brakes on bed, wheelchair, and other transport devices during transfers.
• Use good body mechanics.
• Perform warm up stretches prior to start of shift.
• Report equipment repair/maintenance needs/safety hazards.
• Report all resident incidents and accidents immediately.
• Report any personal injury immediately.
• Use standard precautions and infection control practices.
• Follow St. Luke’s Lutheran Care Center Vulnerable Adult Policy.

  Public Relations

• Demonstrate positive working relationship with coworkers and other departments.
• Use effective communication with residents, families, visitors, coworkers and other health care professionals.
• Promote positive image of St. Luke’s Lutheran Care Center.
• Address resident/staff issues in private.
• Abide by Nursing Department dress code.
• Wear nametag at all times.

  Education

• Attend in-service activities to improve knowledge and skills and maintain competency.
• Participate in St. Luke’s Lutheran Care Center continuous quality improvement efforts.

  WORKING CONDITIONS:

  Area Nursing stations

   

  Physical Expectations

• Ability to frequently bend, squat, crouch, kneel, and push/pull.
• Ability to occasionally reach above shoulder level.
• Ability to carry up to 35 pounds.
• Ability to lift up to 50 to 60 pounds.
• Ability to understand and use GOOD BODY MECHANICS.

  This Job Description subject to review and modification as needed.

  St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center is and Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider.