CNA

Bethany Village is seeking caring and dependable Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to join our skilled nursing team. CNAs play an important role in the daily lives of our residents by assisting with personal care, activities of daily living, meals, mobility, and overall comfort and wellbeing.

The ideal candidate is compassionate, team-oriented, and committed to providing respectful, quality care to seniors in a long-term care setting. Responsibilities include direct resident care, monitoring and reporting changes in condition, assisting with treatments, and helping create a safe and supportive environment for residents and families.

Position Overview:

Provide care or assistance in the activities of daily living as prescribed in the resident's plan of care. Provide direct resident care encompassing admission process, physical hygiene, and treatment intervention within limits of authority.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Bathes residents and otherwise assists with personal hygiene to maximize their comfort, including bed baths, tub baths and showers, oral hygiene, care of hair, fingernails, etc.
• Prepares residents for meals, feeds residents as required, and provides nourishments and fresh water when indicated.
• Assistance with toileting and cleaning resident if incompetent, including transferring on & off commodes or toilets.
• Monitors residents, recognizing and reporting adverse symptoms and reactions.
• Checks blood pressure, temperature, respiration, intake and output, weight, and records results.
• Changes bed linen of both occupied and unoccupied beds, and tidies residents’ rooms.
• Responds to call lights, determines residents’ needs and reports unusual changes in status.
• Assists in moving and lifting of residents both in and out of bed, and walks residents for exercise.
• Administers various treatments as directed: e.g. enemas, compresses, dressings: collects stools, urine and sputum specimens as ordered by physician.

Basic Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assists in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Performs various housekeeping duties: e.g., cleaning shower, utility and treatment rooms.
• Makes beds properly with in the expected time frame.
• Maintains cordial relationship with residents and their families.
• Performs other duties as outlined in the organization/Department policy/procedure manual, or as assigned.