What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Nursing Assistant-Days and Evenings position at Louisville Care Community?
Here at Louisville Care Center, we have multiple roles open for a skilled CNA. You will provide outstanding patient care and physical support for residents on a daily basis. This role requires that you have your state certified nursing assistant certification.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Providing great patient care.
- Answering patient calls and determining how best to help them.
- Providing physical support for residents with daily activities and personal hygiene, including bathing, dressing, getting out of bed, - using the toilet, walking, standing or exercising.
- Turning and repositioning bedridden residents.
- Ensuring residents receive appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences.
- Obtaining a wide range of information from physicians, caregivers and nurses about patient condition, treatment plans, and suggested activities.
- Measuring and recording food and liquid intake and urinary and fecal output and reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Recording vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate as requested by staff.
- Examining patients to detect issues requiring medical care, including open wounds, bruises or blood in urine.
- Reminding patients to take medications and nutritional supplements.
- Noting observations of patient behavior, including complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Stay up to date on CNA training and facility policy and procedure.
- State Certified Nursing Assistant Certification.
- Current CPR (American Heart Association).
- Ability to think and work independently and with direction, and communicate with staff members in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment..
- High School graduate or equivalent.
- Current identification.
- Comfortable using a computer.
- Excellent personal hygiene.
