Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Job Description
• Provides hands-on care to residents. • Provides residents’ personal hygiene by giving baths, showers, shaves, clothing and skin care. • Makes beds, arranges the residents’ rooms, changes dirty linens and provides new ones. • Assists residents in walking and transferring from one place to another, encouraging residents for daily exercise and mobility. • Ensures that residents are comfortable in bed, adjusting bed settings and/or repositioning/turning residents as needed. • Assists with serving meals, feeding residents as necessary, and providing fresh water and snacks between meals. • Maintains resident’s overall stability by recording resident’s intake and output on designated form. • Observes residents’ physical, mental, and emotional conditions. • Performs routine tasks under the supervision of the Nurse or LPN in charge and the Director of Nursing and reports abnormal changes or patterns and violent behavior to nursing staff. • Answers residents’ call lights and requests, reporting observations of the resident to the Nurse in charge. • Maintains supplies, restocks when needed, and notifies supervisors if running low. • Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records. • Protects the Antonine Village’s values by keeping residents’ information confidential. • Serves and protects the Antonine Village facility by adhering to professional standards, the Assisted Living policies and procedures, and federal, state, and local requirements. • Manages the dishwashing duty as well as some housekeeping when needed • Is willing to perform additional hours as needed and required by the Director of Nursing. Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in the continuing education meetings.