Certified Nursing Assistant

Job Description

Job Summary:

• Under direct supervision of a licensed Nurse or other professional medical staff in a health care setting, performs a variety of clerical and health-related duties associated with patient care; performs related work.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists with physical care of selected patients.
• Performs assigned procedures such as changing of simple dressings, taking vital signs, giving enemas, etc.
• Records personal care given.
• Prepares patient for examination by performing assigned procedures such as temperature, pulse, respiration, height, weight and measurements, and assists in the examination process and records findings on patient chart.
• Observes patients’ and/or families’ condition, mental state and social behavior.
• Reports observations.
• Participates in nursing and interdisciplinary health team conferences to assess patients’ and families’ needs and to plan nursing care programs.
• Assists in recreational, demotivational and resocialization activities of nursing care programs.
• Sets up and arranges examining room.
• Assists clinic in admission procedures and in regulation of visitors.
• Cares for patients’ clothing and property.
• Prepares patients for meals and helps feed them as necessary.
• Changes linen and makes beds.
• Keeps wards, utility and treatment rooms in a neat and orderly condition.
• Provides postmortem care.

Education, Experience and Certifications/ License:

• Graduate of an approved CNA program.
• NYS CNA Certification – required.
• Primary Source Verification – required.
• AHA BLS – required.
• 1 year of Nursing Home experience.

Schedule Hours Per Week: 22.50
Schedule Hours Per Day: 8.00
Schedule Days Per Week: 3.00