Certified Nursing Assistant

Duties:

Job Summary: The Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct patient care under the direction of the RN professional to all assigned patients, and maintains a safe patient area. He/she assumes responsibility and accountability for patient care as a team member in order to achieve established outcomes. Essential Generic Job Functions (List in order of importance): -Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making. -Takes vital signs under the direction of the RN, and documents accordingly, and notifies the RN of the results. -Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens including stool, urine, and sputum. -Obtains and documents daily patient weights and observes and documents patient's intake and output. -Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly, communicating with the RN immediately for any change in patient's condition. -Acts in the role of patient sitter when needed. -Maintains a clean and safe nursing unit and patient room. -Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.). -This process includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.). -Contacts: Regular contact with Medical Center personnel, patients and visitors.

Skills:

Required Skills & Experience: -N/A

Preferred Skills & Experience: -N/A