What are the responsibilities and job description for the Restorative Nursing Assistant position at Santa Fe Care Center?
Restorative nursing assistant job description. It consists of the important duties, tasks, and responsibilities usually performed by individuals who work in that position.
- Maintain records of patients’ health condition; monitor their daily progress, landmarks, and shortfalls. This is important to identify routines and techniques that are most effective to patients.
- Inform nurses of developments in patients’ health
- Team up with nurses in adjusting patient’s treatment technique or in developing new treatment techniques for patients from scratch.
- Aide patients’ mobility by taking them from one place to another. In doing this, ensure that the environment is safe and void of anything that could cause harm to patients as they move around. The vicinity must be made safe in every possible way, including keeping sharp objects and toxic materials away from the location.
- Interact closely with patients to bond with them; pay attention to their needs and body language or sign to decode what patients may be trying to say in cases where they cannot verbally express themselves due to the state of their health condition.
- Ensure that patients’ needs are dully met as this could affect their response to treatment and general well-being.
- Provide full emotional support system for patients’ rehabilitation process.
- Interact with patients’ family members and loved ones in order to have a better understanding of patients’ likes and dislikes and to apply it in their treatment plan to achieve positive results.
- Encourage patients’ loved ones to spend time with them as this could lift their mood, giving them a positive mindset about their recovery.
Education/Requirements:
- Ability to communicate with residents and nursing staff.
- Ability to speak, read, and write English.
- Prior experience in LTC nursing facility.
- Successful completion of State Approved Nursing Assistant Training and Competency Evaluation Program (C.N.A License).
- Good standing with state registry is required.
- High School Diploma or equivalent (GED)
