What are the responsibilities and job description for the Part-Time CNA position at Avera Health?
About the Role:
As a member of our skilled nursing team, you will have the opportunity to positively impact each patient you serve by providing direct resident care. Your daily efforts will be focused on meeting the physical, academic, social, and spiritual needs of residents in order to maintain and improve their highest level of independent function.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provides assistance to residents with their activities of daily living
• Performs routine duties and non-routine duties as directed by nursing staff, including assisting patients with bathing and dressing needs, shaving, oral hygiene, bed making, transfers into and out of bed, repositioning, toileting needs, serving and collecting food trays, encouraging and/or assisting with feeding, answering call lights, insuring a clean environment, transporting patients upon admission and dismissal, assisting with ambulation and orienting/reorienting of resident to the facility environment to insure resident safety.
• Documents concise and factual information on the appropriate forms.
• Performs or assists residents in performing specific medical care activities in accordance with established policy and procedure to contribute to the patient's plan of care, including assisting residents in performing restorative exercises, collecting specimens as directed by nursing staff, assessing and documenting completed cares, providing feedback to nursing staff immediately on status or changes in patient conditions, pain management, and other important concerns.
• Assists with restocking supplies and maintaining appropriate work environment in unit including cleaning procedures.
• Participates in providing emotional, educational and spiritual support for families.
• Complies with all aspects of resident rights including confidentiality and privacy, reports all allegations of resident abuse or misappropriation of resident property.
• Maintains an understanding and following of established policy and procedures related to fire, tornado, evacuation, disaster plan, universal precautions, infection control procedures, hazardous and chemical communication program, maintains an environment that is clean and safe for all residents, families and staff.
As a member of our skilled nursing team, you will have the opportunity to positively impact each patient you serve by providing direct resident care. Your daily efforts will be focused on meeting the physical, academic, social, and spiritual needs of residents in order to maintain and improve their highest level of independent function.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provides assistance to residents with their activities of daily living
• Performs routine duties and non-routine duties as directed by nursing staff, including assisting patients with bathing and dressing needs, shaving, oral hygiene, bed making, transfers into and out of bed, repositioning, toileting needs, serving and collecting food trays, encouraging and/or assisting with feeding, answering call lights, insuring a clean environment, transporting patients upon admission and dismissal, assisting with ambulation and orienting/reorienting of resident to the facility environment to insure resident safety.
• Documents concise and factual information on the appropriate forms.
• Performs or assists residents in performing specific medical care activities in accordance with established policy and procedure to contribute to the patient's plan of care, including assisting residents in performing restorative exercises, collecting specimens as directed by nursing staff, assessing and documenting completed cares, providing feedback to nursing staff immediately on status or changes in patient conditions, pain management, and other important concerns.
• Assists with restocking supplies and maintaining appropriate work environment in unit including cleaning procedures.
• Participates in providing emotional, educational and spiritual support for families.
• Complies with all aspects of resident rights including confidentiality and privacy, reports all allegations of resident abuse or misappropriation of resident property.
• Maintains an understanding and following of established policy and procedures related to fire, tornado, evacuation, disaster plan, universal precautions, infection control procedures, hazardous and chemical communication program, maintains an environment that is clean and safe for all residents, families and staff.
