CNA
Company: Advantage Living Center Samaritan
Location: Roseville
Posted on: January 8, 2021
Job Description:
OverviewThe Certified Nursing Aide cares for residents under the
direction and supervision of a registered nurse or a licensed
practical/vocational nurse. The position requires patience,
compassion and a desire to care for the frail elderly in a gentle
and empathetic manner.Qualifications
- Must be a Certified Nursing Aide in good standing with the
certification board or is a graduate of a state approved nursing
assistant training program and passed a state approved competency
examination (written and skills) within 120 days of employment;
name entered into state nurse aide registry.
- High School Graduate/GED preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to express self adequately in written and oral
communication and to communicate effectively in an
interdisciplinary care setting with residents, families, and staff
members.Essential Functions and ResponsibilitiesAdvantage Living
Centers expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of
teamwork, exemplify the values of CARING (Compassion,
Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Nimbleness and Generosity and
uphold the pursuit of creating a person-centered culture for
Residents and Team Members. To perform this job successfully, an
individual must also be able to perform each key function
satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the key functions.Care and
services:
- Takes and records vital signs.
- Measures and records height and weight.
- Calculates and records weight gain or loss.
- Calculates and records fluid intake and output.
- Cares for the resident's environment.
- Recognizes abnormal changes in body functioning and the
importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor.
- Cares for residents when death is imminent.
- Makes routine rounds on each assigned resident every two
hours.
- Bathes residents.
- Assists with grooming, including mouth care.
- Dresses residents.
- Toilets residents.
- Assists with eating and hydration.
- Uses proper feeding techniques.
- Calculates and records percentage of meal eaten.
- Observes resident's skin when giving care and reports changes
to licensed nurse.
- Provides skin care.
- Transfers, positions and turns residents.
- Meets resident's mental health and social service needs.
- Modifies own behavior in response to residents' behaviors.
- Is aware of developmental tasks associated with the aging
process.
- Knows how to respond to residents' behaviors.
- Allows residents to make personal choices.
- Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with the
residents' dignity.
- Uses the residents' families as a source of emotional support
for the resident.
- Contributes to the resident's assessment (MDS/RAPs) and the
plan of care.
- Provides nursing rehabilitation/restorative nursing services
- Promote resident's ability to adopt and adjust to living as
independently as possible.
- Trains the resident in self-care according to the resident's
abilities.
- Trains the resident in the use of assistive devices for
transferring, walking and mobility, dressing and grooming, eating
and swallowing.
- Maintains range of motion; proper turning and positioning in
bed and chair.
- Assists with bowel and bladder retraining.
- Instructs the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and
orthotic devices.
- Incorporates training and skill practice activities, which
include repetition, physical or verbal cueing and task
segmentation.
- Cares for residents with Dementia
- Knows how to respond to residents' behaviors.
- Allows residents to make personal choices.
- Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with
residents' dignity.
- Uses the resident's families as a source of emotional support
for the resident.
- Demonstrates a basic understanding of behavior and functional
symptoms associated with dementia by providing interventions and
treatments to help reduce these symptoms.
- Uses modification in the presentation of activities of daily
living to maintain and maximize resident competencies and
functions.
- Uses effective intervention techniques to address behavioral
concerns.
- Acts as a facilitator for activity programming.
- Demonstrates effective communication techniques for persons
with dementia.
- Provides non-resident care including but not limited to:
- Washing wheelchairs.
- Cleaning soiled utility areas.
- Cleaning nurse's station.
- Cleaning shower and whirlpool rooms.
- Cleaning kitchen areas on the nursing unit.Resident Rights:
Promotes and protects resident's rights; supports the resident in
the exercise of his or her rights. assists residents to make
informed decisions; treats residents with dignity and respect;
protects resident's personal belongings; reports suspected abuse
neglect, exploitation or misappropriation of property; avoids the
need for physical restraints in accordance with current
professional standards; supports independent expression, choice and
decision-making consistent with applicable law and
regulation.Leadership: Demonstrates willingness to try new tasks;
generates new ideas for change; evaluates and recognizes
priorities; challenges others to learn; keeps current and
integrates new information; communicates and models organization
values; fosters high performance.Process Improvement: Applies
process improvement methods and techniques and identifies processes
for improvement in daily work.Environment of Care and Safety:
Assures resident environment is safe and takes necessary steps to
intervene if an unsafe situation is identified; demonstrates
understanding of fire and emergency procedures; participates in
fire and disaster drills; demonstrates understanding of safety and
security procedures; applies safety and security precautions;
demonstrates understanding of hazardous materials plan;
demonstrates proper use of equipment.Infection Control: Applies
hand washing principles during daily work; demonstrates
understanding of isolation precautions; recognizes signs and
symptoms of infection and complies with the employee health
program; demonstrates understanding of the process for identifying
and handling infectious waste; maintains personal hygiene; complies
with OSHA standards in the work place; and demonstrates
understanding of cross contamination.Information Management: Enters
or records data timely and accurately; protects confidentiality of
resident information (in accordance with HIPAA policies); protects
data against loss or destruction; reports suspected violation of
security/confidentiality issues.Continuing Education: Attends
inservice training programs; attends continuing education required
for maintenance of certification.Physical Demands: The physical
demands described here represent those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential function of this
job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While
performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently
required to stand, walk, use hands or fingers, reach with hands and
arms, talk or hear. The employee must be able to assist to lift
and/or transfer residents weighing between 100 to 250 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close
vision, distance vision and peripheral vision.
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