Certified Nursing Assistant
$52,000–$59,176 year
On-siteSitka, Alaska, United States
Job Summary
Provide basic nursing care to non-acute and acutely ill patients while maintaining a safe and clean environment. Obtain nursing data through interviewing and observing patients under an RN's direction, documenting findings and reporting abnormal changes or unusual incidents. Perform general nursing care including bed baths, oral hygiene, dressing patients, and applying appliances, while monitoring vital signs and transporting specimens. Assist with patient positioning, lifting, ambulation, feeding, and handling personal belongings, and answer call lights to provide 1:1 care when indicated. Maintain a safe environment by preparing rooms for admissions or discharges, cleaning equipment, disposing of waste, and replenishing supplies. Float as needed to other departments under nurse manager or charge nurse discretion.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Certified Nursing Assistant certificate from an accredited program
- Current full, unrestricted CNA license in the state of Alaska
- 1 year of prior experience as a CNA preferred
- Ability to work cooperatively with others by establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships with patients, visitors, and other healthcare team members
- Assures confidentiality of patient information at all times
- Uses aggressive patient management techniques to defuse any patient/visitor/peer volatile situations
- Must have the ability to react in a calm functional manner and make sound judgments within scope of duties when taking care of critically ill patients and in the event of emergencies
- Job requires lifting of patients who are non-ambulatory on a regular interval
- Mentally requires a caring attitude in dealing with both acute and non-acute patients and families on a steady basis
- Must be able to follow instructions and demonstrate relevant scope of practice when caring for patients by maintaining a safe environment with appropriate infection controls measures
- Demonstrates the knowledge of correct equipment use
- Demonstrates knowledge between normal and abnormal patient findings as identified on the plan of care with a nurse's agreement
- Skills in Oral and written communication skills, can transcribe and retrieve telemetry and other nursing data accurately, and can verbally communicate findings with healthcare team
- Competently maintains a clean work environment with proper infection control measure including equipment cleaning
- Provides general nursing care with minimal direction under the supervision of a RN
- Ability to work cooperatively with others by establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships with patients, visitors, and other healthcare team members
- Assures confidentiality of patient information at all times
- Uses aggressive patient management techniques to defuse any patient/visitor/peer volatile situations
Desired Qualifications
- Current BLS-must be obtained within 3 months of hire and prior to completion of clinical orientation; biannually thereafter
- Must take and pass courses as specific to unit needs (i.e. telemetry course with 80% or better within 3 months, plus h ave 80 hours supervised RN clinical monitoring of telemetry; POC/waived testing, etc.)
- Clinical Competency required within 3 months of hire and every three years
- Experience Required 1 year of prior experience as a CNA preferred
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