What are the responsibilities and job description for the IPU CNA (32 hours) Weekend nights and Monday third shift position at Hospice of the Piedmont?
Schedule : (32 hours) Saturday and Sunday 7p-7a and Monday 11p-7a
This position carries out duties assigned by the RN in order to increase the level of patient comfort, maintain good personal hygiene and maintain a safe environment for the patient / family / caregiver.
Here are the essential duties day to day :
- Take vitals once a day per patient
- Patient Hygiene (bathe, mouthcare, keep patient dry, and more)
- Reposition patients every 4 hours, or based on family's request
- Help with passing out trays for meals
- Recording intake and output
- Empty trash cans and restock patient rooms with supplies
- Documenting everything you have done
- Reports changes in patient's condition, concerns about patient and / or family to appropriate nursing staff in a timely fashion.
- Participates in interdisciplinary team conferences, shift report, staff training, agency and departmental meetings and other related activities.
- Up to 4-6 patients a day per CNA
Here is what our employees have to say!
Though it is very rewarding work, it also comes with challenges :
In hospice care, you are dealing with grief. It is important to find ways to not take the heaviness of it all home with you. Many of our employees find that what helps them on those hard days is to find joy in the fact that they were able to be there to comfort that patient, help them feel cared for, and make a difference in the time they had with them.
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