Certified Nursing Assistant Job Description
Job Summary
Provides basic patient care under direction of the Registered/Licensed Nurse.
General Accountabilities*
Job Qualifications
Skills
*The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
Provides basic patient care under direction of the Registered/Licensed Nurse.
General Accountabilities*
- Answers patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems.
- Turns or repositions bedridden patients.
- Provides physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities.
- Reviews patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
- Measures and records food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Records vital signs, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Gathers information about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities.
- Observes or examines patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention.
- Documents or otherwise reports observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Reminds patients to take nutritional supplements.
- Feeds patients or assists patients to eat or drink.
- Supplies, collects, or empties bedpans.
- Undresses, washes, and dresses patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Changes bed linens or makes beds.
- Interacts with patients considering their developmental, age-specific, and cultural and spiritual preferences.
- Assists patient with ADL's, bathing, showering, toileting, positioning, turning, transferring and ambulating.
Job Qualifications
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience: Substantial related experience
- One of the following: six months or more in a Nurse Assistant position, CNA certification, currently enrolled in nursing school or a student that has completed a 2 year High School Health Careers program.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Service orientation
- Active listening
- Monitoring
- Critical thinking
*The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.