Company

Highfield Gardens Care CenterSee more

addressAddressCopiague, NY
type Form of workFull-Time
CategoryEducation/Training

Job description

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Responsibilities:

  • Observes and reports signs and symptoms of disability, illness, and change in condition or behavior. Takes, measures, and records signs, height, weight, and food/fluid intake/output

  • Keeps utility areas, kitchen, wheelchairs, and shower rooms in order

  • Cleans equipment such as wheelchairs, geri-chairs, and stretchers. 

  • Delivers supplies, equipment, specimens, and correspondence to/from other areas in the facility

  • Meets safety needs by reporting environmental, hazards, proper utilization of restraints, observance of infection control measures, anid-oxygen safety

  • Meets needs of residents with special conditions such as mental impairment - behavior disorders, and medical problems. 

  • Cares for dying residents, including care of the body and personal effects, after death. 

  • Relates appropriately to residents, families, visitors, and staff

  • Responsible for attending in-service programs that are provided to facilitate government regulations

  • Required to work alternate weekends and rotate holidays. May assist with emergencies.

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Physical Demands: 

  • Stands, sits, and walks most of the day

  • Frequent moving and lifting of residents

  • Frequent moderate – to heavy lifting

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Working Conditions: 

  • Well-lighted, well-ventilated areas. 

  • Hazards: May be exposed to infection, odors, and psycho behavioral problems. 

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Administrative Functions:

  • Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatment, serving meal, etc., as necessary. 

  • Record all entries on flow sheets, notes; chait, etc.; in an informative and i descriptive manner.

  • Report all changes in resident's condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as possible. Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur. 

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Functions: 

  • Ensure that the resident's room is ready for receiving the resident: (i.e., bed made, name tags, admission kit available, etc.)

  • Greet residents and escort them to their room. Introduce residents to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.

  • Make resident.comfortable (ie., put to bed, get water, etc.). 

  • Inventory and mark the resident's personal possessions as instructed Store resident's clot

  • Assist resident with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged

  • Perform all-assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisor. 

  • Follow work assignment, and/of work schedule in completing and performing you assignment task. Cooperate with interdepartmental.personnel, as well as other facility personnel.

  • Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident. 

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Personnel Functions:

  • Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for dutý. 

  • Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.

  • Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care (i.e., brushing teeth/dentures,--oral hygiene, special mouth-care; etc.) as directed.

  • Give backups as directed.

  • Assist residents with dressing/undressing as necessary.

  • Assist resident with fingernail care (i.e., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails. Note: includes finger nail care for diabetic residents.

  • Perform any necessary toenail cleaning. Report any needed toenail lipping or trimming to nurse.

  • Shave male residents. 

  • Shave female residents (i.e., facial hair; under arms; legs, etc:) as instructed

  • Keep resident dry (i.e., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled.

  • Change bed linens. Keep linen tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the resident.

  • Make bed (occupied and unoccupied).

  • Put extra covers on bed as requested. Position bedfast residents in correct and comfortable position.

  • Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bedpan/urinal, portable commode, etc.)

  • Maintain intake and output records as instructed.

  • Collect specimens as instructed (i:ë., urine, sputum, stools, etc.). Check and report bowel movements and character of stools as instructed.

  • Prepare enemas. Report results as instructed.

  • Assist with lifting, turning, moving positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchair; lift, etc.

  • Assist resident to walk with or without self-help devices as instructed. 

  • Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.

  • Weigh and measure residents as instructed

  • Measure and record temperature, pulse, and respiration (TPRS) as instructed.

  • Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. 

  • Answer resident calls promptly. 

  • Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care is being met in accordance with his/her wishes.

  • Assist with the care of the dying residen. Provide post-mortem care as instructed. 

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Special Care Functions:

  • Observe and report the presence of reddened skin areas and skin break down to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).

  • Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.

  • Provide daily indwelling catheter care.

  • Provide daily perineal care.

  • Assist with the application of slings, elastic bandages, binders; etc.

  • Give tepid sponge baths.

  • Provide daily range of motion exercised data as instructed.

  • Turn bedfast resident at least every two (2) hours.

  • Perform special treatments as instructed

  • Observe disoriented and comatose residents.

  • Record and report data as instructed.

  • Turn all medication found in the resident's room/possession over to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.

  • Provide residents with reality-orientation, as instructed.. .... Watch for and report any changes in room temperature, ventilation, lighting, etc.

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Food Service Function: 

  • Prepare resident for meals (i.e take to bathroom, wash hands,-comb hair, raise bed, position table, place bibs, take to/from dining room, etc.)

  • Serve food trays. Assist with feeding as indicated (i.e., cutting foods, feeding assist in the dining room, supervision; etc:)

  • Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e. informing residents with sight problems of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it's hot or cold, etc.).

  • Record the resident's food/fluid intake. Report changes in the residents' eating habits.

  • Keep residents' water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident. 

  • Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean residents hand, face, clothing, take to bathroom, brush teeth, clean dentures, etc.).

  • Check room for food articles (ice, food improper container, unauthorized-food-.-- items, etc.) 

 

Resident Rights: 

  • Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.

  • Ensure that you treat all residents fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect

  • Knock before entering the resident's room

  • Report all grievance and complaints made by resident to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.

  • Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of residents property.

  • Honor the resident's refusal of treatment. Report such requests to your supervisor. . 

 

Care Plan Functions: 

  • Review assignment/accountability to determine if changes in the resident's daily care routine have been made on the care plan.

  • Inform the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse of any changes in the resident's condition so that appropriate information can be entered on the resident's care plan. 

 

Safety and Sanitation:

  • Check restrained residents at least every thirty (30) minutes.

  • Release restraints at least every two (2) hours for range of motion exercises: taking resident.to bathroom, etc.

  • Maintain a record of restrained residents; the times restraints were released, and how long the restraints were released.

  • Wash hands before and after meals performing any service for the resident. 

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Refer code: 7447798. Highfield Gardens Care Center - The previous day - 2023-12-28 00:18

Highfield Gardens Care Center

Copiague, NY
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