C.N.A.

Description

The Center at Arrowhead
The Center at Arrowhead is a Veritas Management Group building. The sister facility, the Center at Centennial in Colorado Springs was the first building opened in 2007. Now there are over a dozen Centers throughout various states with the goal of helping patients recover from illness or injury to reach their highest level of independence. The Center at Arrowhead is a new state of the art 96 bed Skilled Nursing Facility striving for excellence for patients, and it's employees.
Purpose of Your Job Position
The primary purpose of your job position is to provide each patient with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the patients assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors.
Delegation of Authority
As a Certified Nursing Assistant you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties.
Job Functions
Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.
Duties and Responsibilities
Administrative Functions

• Record all entries are informative and descriptive manner.
• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
• Report all changes in the patients to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.
• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.

Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Functions

• Ensure that the patient's room is ready for receiving the patient (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
• Greet patient and escort them to their room.

Personnel Functions

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shifts nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor.

Personal Nursing Care Functions

• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Assist patients with daily dental and mouth care (i.e., brushing teeth/dentures, oral hygiene, special mouth care, etc.).
• Assist patients with bath functions (i.e., bedbath, tub or shower bath, etc.) as directed.
• Assist patients with ADLs necessary.
• Keep patients dry (i.e., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Change bed linens, make beds. Keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the patients.
• Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
• Assist patients in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Assist patients in preparing for activity and social programs (i.e., church services, parties, visitors, etc.).
• Assist in transporting patients to/from appointments, activity and social programs, etc., as necessary.
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting patients into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts etc.
• Assist patients to walk with or without self-help devices as instructed.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Change dressings, bandages, binders, etc., as instructed.
• Weigh and measure patients as instructed.
• Measure and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations (TPRs) as instructed.
• Answer calls promptly.
• Ensure that patients who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Check each patients routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.

Safety and Sanitation

• Participate in appropriate in-service training programs prior to performing tasks that involve potential exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Wash hands before and after performing any service
• Keep the nurses call system within easy reach
• Immediately notify the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse of elopement
• Follow established safety precautions in the performance of all duties.
• Keep patients personal possessions off the floor and properly stored.
• Keep floors dry. Report spills immediately.
• Keep excess supplies and equipment off the floor. Store in designated areas.
• Wash wheelchairs, walkers, etc., as instructed.
• Clean, disinfect, and return all patient care equipment to its designated storage area after each use.
• Perform routine housekeeping duties (i.e., clean bedrails, overbed table, night stand, etc., that relate to nursing care procedures).
• Before leaving work area for breaks, or at the end of the work day, store all tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Report all hazardous conditions and equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse immediately.
• Report all safety violations.
• Follow established smoking regulations. Report all violations.
• Report any communicable or infectious disease to the Director of Nursing Services and/or to the Infection Control Coordinator.
• Follow established isolation precautions and procedures.
• Follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
• Wear and/or use safety equipment and supplies (e.g., back brace, mechanical lifts, etc.) when lifting or moving residents.
• Report missing/illegible labels and SDSs to your supervisor.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Rehabilitation center

Qualifications

Experience
Must be a licensed Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with laws of this state.
Physical and Sensory Requirements

• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the work day.
• Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
• Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility which include a medical and physical examination.
• Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile people within the facility.
• Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds. Requires lifting more weight up to 100 pounds with assistance. Occasional pushing of carts and wheelchairs.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.