Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Job Description
UP TO $750 SIGN-ON BONUS AVAILABLE!
$500 at six (6) months of employment
$250 at one (1) year of employment
SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL FROM $0.50 TO $2.00 PER HOUR DEPENDING ON SHIFT!
CNA COURSE EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT OFFERED!
After 1 year of active employment
Maintain at least 0.20 FTE (8 hours per week)
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position provides basic care for residents to assure the highest degree of quality resident care is maintained at all times within a safe environment; assists with activities of daily living, offers emotional and social support, and attends residents overall physical comfort.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provides personal hygiene including bathing (tub, shower, bed bath), oral care, skin and nail care and hand washing.
- Completes resident grooming including hair care, shaving, dressing and weighing. - - Encourages residents toward independent personal care.
- Assists with toileting including bowel and bladder retraining and perinea care.
- Performs and assists with mobility, transferring, ambulation, positioning and range of motion per the care plan.
- Assists in orienting residents upon admission and throughout stay as needed.
- Documents accurately all care given, including dietary intake and output, temperature, weight, blood pressure pulse and respiration, using approved abbreviations and descriptive terms.
- Reports to nurse on units for written and verbal assignments which include daily use of care plans for assigned residents before initiating care.
- Participates in the planning of resident care through shift reports and resident care staffing meetings when assigned.
- Informs verbally and/or submit in writing any observations and changes in a resident for the licensed nurse to evaluate including dietary intake.
- Serves residents their meals; motivates and assists them with intake of nourishment and fluids.
- Answer all call signals and requests of residents immediately.
- Encourages/assist residents in keeping their rooms clean and orderly; assists with making beds.
- Maintains nursing unit in a clean and orderly manner.
- Keeps all residents’ personal belongings and equipment clean.
- Escorts residents to appointments and/or therapy departments as scheduled.
- Participates in unit activity programs planned for residents as needed.
- Attends and participates in unit nursing staff meetings and mandatory in-services.
- Performs a total inventory of all resident’s possessions on admission, discharge or transfer.
- Ensures all residents’ possessions are properly labeled.
- Responds to resident emergency including bleeding, falls, seizures and performance of Heimlich maneuver.
- Assists with post-mortem care as assigned.
- Transports dietary carts and linen carts.
- Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Age 16 or older.
- Successful completion of CNA training course.
- Wisconsin certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant and on state registry.
- Must successfully pass criminal and caregiver background check.