CNA - Transportation

The overall purpose of the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)/Transportation position is to provide each of the assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the residents’ plan of care and coordinate patient transportation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Performs duties and responsibilities with assigned functional area within a nursing home facility which may include, but are not limited to, any combination of the following tasks:

• Provides personal care to residents in a manner conducive to their safety and comfort consistent with facility policies and procedures as well as state/federal guidelines and regulations.
• Strives to provide for resident preference and choice in all areas of care.
• Identifies and corrects safety hazards in patient care areas and understands personal responsibility for all aspects of patient safety.
• Complies with established policy, practices, and standards for nursing services.
• Promotes and supports the greatest possible degree of independence for residents.
• Advises charge nurse of residents’ status at beginning and end of shift.
• Makes frequent round on unit assigned to assure the environment is neat, odor-free, and orderly and corrects as needed. This includes resident rooms, hallways, public restrooms, shower rooms, dining rooms and any other common areas.
• Completes daily documentation as required including restorative programming, and computerized documentation.
• Ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Working with the elderly and rehabilitation patients, primarily pickup and delivery to physicians’ offices and hospitals and dialysis, locally.