Certified Nursing Assistant

*Seeking AM (7a-7p) & PM (7p-7a) Nursing Rotation*

GENERAL PURPOSE

Perform direct resident care duties in accordance with the resident’s assessment and care-plan. Assist with promoting a compassionate, physical and psychosocial environment, as directed and under supervision by your supervisors.

Is subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc., including TB, and the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

General Skills

Observe and practice safety according to facility policy and procedure. Able to explain and demonstrate fire/emergency procedures. Properly use and maintain facility equipment. Show respect for facility property.

Demonstrate and be able to explain infection control and isolation procedures. Demonstrate and able to explain proper body mechanics. Ensure residents are clean and comfortable. Ensure residents are given correct diet. Use proper feeding techniques while respecting personal dignity and meeting the resident’s need for socialization. Make beds correctly and wrinkle free. Maintain resident rooms in neat, orderly and clutter-free manner. Support resident participation in activity programs. Maintain ability to present a professional appearance and attitude. Must be able to perform the tasks of the job without any restrictions.

Customer Service Skills

Promote and maintain positive relationships with Service Skills coworkers, residents, visitors, volunteers, and regulators. Directly respond, within your scope of practice, to needs and concerns of residents and family members.

Work with the care-giving team to identify and resolve resident and family issues. Promptly respond to call lights and other resident needs. Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift. Report complaints and grievances immediately. Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.

Resident Rights

Treat residents with compassion and dignity. Establish Rights effective communication/interaction with residents and families. Ensure residents right to privacy (visual and auditory). Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility records/information. Show respect for residents’ personal property. Ensure residents are dressed appropriately, consistent with weather conditions, and according to their wishes. Recognize a resident’s ability to make choices and support these within the constraints of the care-giving environment. Communicate with members of the care-giving team about residents personal choices. Communicate and is sensitive and appropriately responsive to residents end of life concerns and wishes to the Charge Nurse. Ensure you treat all residents fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect. Always knock prior to entering a room. Report any allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property immediately. Honor resident’s refusal of treatment and report such requests to your supervisor.

Nursing Care Implementation

Perform the following according to policy and procedure: Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure. Ambulate residents. Apply proper lifting and transferring techniques. Provide proper positioning and use of postural supports. Maintain residents positioning as needed. Weigh residents on schedule and record weights accurately. Provide restorative and rehabilitative nursing. Provide active and passive range of motion. Implement bowel and bladder program. Collect certain specimens for cultures pursuant to facility policy and within your scope of practice. Check and report/record bowel movements and character of stools as instructed.

Ensure residents comfort while assisting them in achieving their highest practicable level of functioning as follows:

Assist residents with their activities of daily living. Provide oral care and hygiene pursuant to the plan of care. Provide nail care pursuant to the plan of care. Assist residents with dressing and grooming according to their needs, wishes and desires. Bathe residents with attention to privacy, respecting dignity, and providing a safe and relaxing experience. Making beds appropriately using the proper linens.

Always identify your resident prior to performing any task or procedure. Performs work safely by consistently using gait belts, back supports and lifts. Check residents routinely to assure their personal care needs are met. Check residents skin every shift and report any abnormalities immediately. Provide indwelling catheter care every shift.

Provide perineal care after each incontinent episode. Prepare residents for meals, assist with feeding as indicated, provide after meal care, serve between meal and bedtime snacks as ordered.

Nursing Care Evaluation

Report the following to the Charge Nurse and the care-giving team as appropriate and/or document according to policy and procedure: A significant change in a residents condition, a change in a residents vital signs or weight, any accidents or injuries, any changes in a residents skin integrity, behavioral changes, signs of resident depression or anxiety, changes in a residents ambulation status, the level of the residents food consumption, and the residents intake of food and liquids as well as the residents output when indicated.

Nursing Care Planning

Participate in collecting data needed for the accurate completion of the MDS and the Plan of Care. Show understanding of information that is provided by the ADL flow sheets. Provide input to the Nurses for development or change of the plan of care. Provide information gathered from care- giving activities to the Charge Nurse. Ensure your documentation reflects that the care plan is being followed.

Continuing Education

Assist in the orientation and training of other staff. Attend orientation, mandatory in-service and education programs and staff meetings to maintain current certification as a Nursing Assistant.

Safety

Comply with all Company policies related to safety and infection control procedures, including the proper use of mechanical lifts, gait belts and personal protective back supports. Report all accidents and incidents immediately.

Report exposure to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous materials immediately to your supervisor.

Make sure locks on beds and wheel chairs are locked prior to transferring residents. Answer call lights promptly.

Clean up spills immediately. Store equipment properly. Use restraints only as instructed by your supervisor. Check at least every 30 minutes and release every two (2) hours. Immediately notify your supervisor if any resident is missing from the building. Report any safety violations. Follow established smoking regulations. Use your personal protective equipment appropriately. Use only the equipment you have been trained to use, and in a safe manner.

Report defective equipment. Operate all equipment in a safe manner. Must not pose a threat to the health and safety of other individuals. Follow all safety policies to assure resident safety.

Resident

Understand, comply with and promote all rules and regulations regarding resident’s rights, promote positive relationships with residents, visitors, and regulators, to include presenting a professional appearance.

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS

Corporate Compliance

Must adhere to Medical Management Concepts Code of Conduct and Business Ethics Policy, including documentation and reporting responsibilities.

Staff Development

Attend and participate in educational activities, in-service training and staff meetings: assist in orientation and training of other staff.

Quality Improvement

Participate in Quality Improvement activities as assigned.

Other Duties

Other duties as assigned or needed. This includes residents that you are not familiar with.

Benefits

• Cigna Health, including HSA option
• Cigna Vision
• Cigna Dental
• Mutual of Omaha Voluntary Life Insurance for employee, spouse, & children
• Mutual of Omaha EMPLOYER PAID Life Insurance for Full-Time employees
• Mutual of Omaha Hospital Indemnity
• Mutual of Omaha Critical Illness
• MedCom FSA

EOE Statement: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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