Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)
Position Summary: Provide quality nursing care to residents in an environment which promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and their individuality.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Learn and know individualized care plans for residents and provide services to resident according to care plan.
- Provide assistance or total care for grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, turning, repositioning, or other needs.
- Lift, move, and transport residents.
- Maintain the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in the delivery of services.
- Clean and sanitize workrooms, equipment, and resident units.
- Ensure compliance with established infection control procedures.
- Observe, chart, and report changes in resident condition or behavior to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
- Answer resident’s requests for service promptly.
- Perform various tasks including vital signs, resident’s weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
- Float between all units depending on the need.
- Assumes all other position related responsibilities as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Communicates effectively and tactfully, while recognizing age, cultural orientation, needs, abilities and physical condition, while using appropriate interventions.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and professional working relationships with residents, families, visitors, and employees.
- Well organized and attentive to detail.
- Practice the highest standards of ethics, honesty, and accuracy.
- Ability to work independently, as an effective team member and manage time productively.
- Maintains confidentiality in all aspects of the Care Center, its residents and employees.
- Proficient interpersonal relations.
- Reading, writing, grammar, and mathematics skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Education, Training, Experience:
- In progress or completion of HS Diploma or GED.
- Previous related experience or training preferred, especially caring for the elderly with memory loss.
- Participates in learning and development opportunities.
- Attends all required in-service training and departmental meetings.
Required Licenses, Registration, and/or Certifications:
- Successful completion of a Michigan state approved nurse assistant certification course or other education that meets state certification requirements.
- Must hold current nurse assistant certification in Michigan.