CNA (All Shifts)

Certified Nursing Assistant

DEPARTMENT: Nursing

REPORTS TO: RN or LPN

WAGE: Non-exempt

General Purpose: Perform direct resident care duties under the supervision of licensed nursing personnel. Assist with promoting a compassionate physical and psychosocial environment for the residents.

Essential Job Functions: This facility expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents. Therefore, the following list of duties is not all-inclusive:

• Provide personal care (i.e., grooming, bathing, dressing, oral care, etc.) of residents daily and as needed.
• Change bed linen and maintain appropriate grooming supplies in resident room on a regular basis.
• Ambulate and transfer residents, utilizing appropriate assistive devices and body mechanics.
• Record resident vital signs, weights and measurements, intake and output, food consumption, and other information as assigned.
• Routinely turn and position residents as necessary.
• Observe residents carefully and report changes in condition to Charge

Nurse.

• Recognize a resident’s ability to make choices and support these within the constraints of the caregiving environment.
• Participate in collecting data needed for the accurate completion of the

MDS and the plan of care. Provide input to the nurses for development of the plan of care.

• Provide adequate hydration to residents at regular intervals each day according to specific resident needs.
• Prepare residents for each meal and transport to dining room (unless resident on bed rest) making sure that food tray is accessible, self-help devices are available (if needed), and assistance is provided to those residents who cannot feed themselves.
• Keep an accurate record of food intake and output, as directed.
• Maintain established housekeeping standards within assigned duty areas.
• Assist nursing staff with the basics of aseptic and sterile techniques to avoid infection of residents and self-contamination of equipment and supplies.
• Be alert for proper ventilation, temperature, light and noise control.

Revised 12/2011

Certified Nursing Assistant – Continued:

• Take TPR, blood pressure, weighing of residents, etc. as directed.
• Promptly answer call lights and other resident needs.
• Utilize proper body mechanics when lifting or transporting residents.
• Assist in the orientation and training of other staff, as requested.
• Attend in-service education programs in order to meet facility educational requirements.
• Be familiar with Standard Precautions, Exposure Control Plan, Fire Drill &

Evacuation Procedures and know how to use the information.

• Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility records/information.
• Protect residents from neglect, mistreatment, and abuse.
• Protect the personal property of the residents of the facility.
• Must adhere to attendance standards per Attendance Policy.
• Others as directed by the supervisor or administrator.

Minimum Qualifications CERTIFIED:

• Current Nursing Assistant Certification from state.
• Maintain CPR Certification
• High School Graduate or GED