PATIENT CARE SITTER-CNA TR

Description

The Patient Care Sitter/CNA assists with the routine care of their assigned patients under the direction of the professional nurse in a care partner dyad. Patient Care Sitter/CNA will participate in pulling and floating to any unit based on patient census and acuity to assist with routine care responsibilities. CNA is supervised by the Patient Care Services Manager, Unit Director, Nurse Manager, Team Leader, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and care partner RN.

Essential Duties

• Ability to transfer patients within the hospital environment and assist with bed mobility.
• Answer call lights in a timely and courteous manner.
• Assist patients with all aspects of ADL's; observes the patient for physical and/or mental changes.
• Document chartable activities in computer.
• Feed patients and give them between meal fluids and nourishments.
• Follow and maintain isolation procedures, especially chemo precautions and radium implant precautions.
• Follow the interdisciplinary plan of care developed by the professional nurse.
• Make beds, occupied or unoccupied.
• Observes patient and environment for fall hazards.
• Observes patients for suicidal ideation and follows suicide precautions.
• Obtain and record patient weights: standing, bedscale, and wheelchair
• Perform bladder scanPerform downtime procedures.
• Promotes safety for patients and visitors.
• Provides emotional support for patients and visitors.
• Reports changes in patients' condition to the professional nurse.
• Restock supplies in patients' rooms.
• Take temperatures, pulse, respirations, B/P's, and measure and document I & O's.
• Utilize safety restraints and assistive devices appropriately.
• Walking rounds
  
  

Requirements

Required Experience

• Nursing student who can show competence of a semester of clinical rotation.
• Completion of certified nurse aid course.
  
  

Preferred Licensure/Education

• CNA certificate registered with the State of Illinois or equivalent.
• Current CPR certification or obtainment within 6 months of hiring with subsequent recertification preferred.
  
  

Exposure

Employee Health Requirements

• Chemicals: Refer to MSDS Sheets
• Video Display Terminals: Extreme
• Blood and Body Fluids: Minimal potential due to very restricted direct patient contact.
• TB or Airborne Pathogens: Minimal potential due to very restricted direct patient contact.
  
  

Sensory Requirements (speech, Vision, Smell, Hearing, Touch)

• Speech: Required to communicate with physicians, patients, staff and hospitals.
• Vision: Needed to see MIS display, graphic lines for documentation, read printouts of reports, names on charts and forms.
• Smell: Needed for electrical/fire safety, detect presence of ETOH on patients and visitors. Hearing: Needed for telephone communication, hear intercom system from patient rooms and front door.
• Touch: Required to manipulate and operate office equipment and tools.
  
  

Activity/Lifting Requirements

• Average Hours per Week: 40
• Shift: Days
  
  

Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to:

• Sit: 68%
• Twist: 10%
• Stand: 20%
• Crawl: 0%
• Walk: 10%
• Kneel: 2%
• Lift: 5%
• Drive: 2%
• Squat: 5%
• Climb: 1%
• Bend: 5%
• Reach above shoulders: 2%
  
  

The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below:

• Up to 10 lbs: Frequently
• Up to 20 lbs: Occasionally
• Up to 35 lbs: Occasionally
• Up to 50 lbs: Not Required
• Up to 75 lbs: Not Required
• Up to 100 lbs: Not Required
• Over 100lbs: Not required
  
  

Describe And Explain The Lifting And Carrying Requirements

• Carry records from place to place, waist high approx 10-15'.
• Lift supplies from floor to cabinets, about 3-4'.
• Lift/carry supplies from utility rooms to counter and office.
• Carry stacks of chairs waist high approx 5-15'. In an emergency, could be required to carry a fire extinguisher down/up 3 flights of stairs and several hundred yards.
  
  

Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:

• Sit: 120
• Twist: 10
• Stand: 30
• Crawl: 0
• Walk: 10
• Kneel: 5
• Lift: 2
• Drive: 0
• Squat: 5
• Climb: 1
• Bend: 15
• Reach above shoulders: 2
  
  

Repetitive Use Of Hands (Frequency Indicated)

• Simple grasp up to 10 lbs.
• Normal weight: 5- 10 lbs-occasionally
• Pushing and pulling normal weight: 5-100lbs occasionally.
• Fine Manipulation: Writing and computer keyboard.
  
  

Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control:

• None
  
  

Environmental Factors And Special Hazards

Environmental Factors (Time Spent):

• Inside hours: 8
• Outside hours: 0
• Temperature: Normal Range
• Lighting: Average
• Noise levels: Average
• Humidity: Dry
• Atmosphere: Odors
  
  

Special Hazards: Radiation, Chemical

• Chemical -drugs/work with patients receiving chemotherapy-Explosive-oxygen; Radiation-cesium implants and radioactive iodine therapy direct radiation for radiology equipment; mechanical- use of Hoover lift bed scales, motorized wheelchairs, bathtub lift chair.
• Protective Clothing Required: As required for chemotherapy or in cases of isolation, i.e. gloves, gowns, masks, goggles.