Certified Nurse Aide

Responsibilities

Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents’ needs and ensures call lights are within reach of resident. • Ensures that residents’ who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. • Gives direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of residents. • Explains procedures to residents. • Assists residents as necessary in their activities of daily living. • Assists residents with bowel and bladder functions. • Assists residents in preparation for and transporting to appointments, activities and social programs. • Assists with lifting, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs. • Provides incontinent care as needed. • Dresses resident appropriate to the current weather. • Notifies Supervisor if resident needs clothing. • Changes bed linens. • Handles linens according to infection control guidelines. • Fees residents requiring help and records meal intake. • Delivers and documents all snacks and supplements. • Offers fluids to residents frequently to ensure that residents are hydrated where designated by care plan. • Reviews and implements daily nursing needs as outlined by resident Care Plan or nurse managers. • Transports residents or assists residents with mobility needs. • Turns and repositions bedfast residents, alone or with assistance. • Takes and records temperatures, blood pressure, pulse rates, respiration rates, height, weight, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed. • Monitors resident’s activities and reports any irregularities of resident performance to nurse managers. • Participates in and receives nursing report upon reporting and departing to/from work. • Reports all changes in residents’ conditions to supervisor. • Cleans instruments and equipment and returns to proper area after use. • Maintains cleanliness of residents’ units, central bathing area, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms, and linen closets. • Provides post-mortem care as instructed. • Accurately records all care as directed. • Participates and attends periodic in-services and staff meetings. • Understands and adheres to the guidelines of “Residents Rights”. • Perform additional duties as assigned.