Description

Position Overview:

Provide assigned residents with personal, quality care to meet their daily need in accordance with established federal, state and facility policies. Cooperates with co-workers and follows directions given by licensed nurses.

Essential Job Functions:

Assures residents’ privacy and dignity while providing care:

• Identifies residents before providing care in accordance with their NSA
• Addresses residents by their name of choice when providing care

Interacts with residents in a warm, personal manner and provides a calm environment:

• Provides opportunities for the residents to talk, and listens attentively
• Warmly greets residents upon admission
• Introduces new residents to staff and other residentsas appropriate

Assures the residents are clean and comfortable at all times:

• Assists the residents in feeding, dressing, and toileting as necessary

Assists residents in ambulating and transferring as necessary:

• Ambulates, transfers, and applies adaptive equipment according to NSA
• Assists residents to activities and meals in a timely manner
• Assists with activities of daily living as necessary

Provides nursing care for residents within scope of training and as directed by licensed nurses:

• Applies dressings and treatments and performs other duties as directed by licensed nurses
• Assist lab personnel as needed
• Takes vital signs when needed

Provides nutrition and hydration to promote well-being of residents

• Provided fresh water and other fluids frequently and regularly
• Assist in preparing and serving food trays and snacks as needed

Communicates residents’ care needs with peers and supervisors:

• Obtains pertinent information regarding residents’ care at the start of the shift
• Is knowledgeable of NSA for each resident
• Promptly reports changes in residents’ conditions to licensed nurse

Observes and record residents’ conditions and/or any incidents or accident:

• Records all information regarding care of residents in accordance with federal, state and facility polices
• Assists in completing incident and accident forms in accordance with federal, state, and facility polices

Assist maintaining an organized and clean area for residents and co-workers:

• Provides laundry service per schedule for all residents
• Performs housecleaning duties as directed

• Maintains clean and organized work area and equipment
• Observes all infection control polices according to federal, state, and facility polices

Assist in the admission process:

• As directed by licensed nurses

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Must be Certified Medication Aide in Kansas.

Physical Requirements:

Medium Work – Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly.