Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

About the Role

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) cares for residents under the direction and supervision of a registered nurse or a licensed practical/vocational nurse. This role assists residents with activities of daily living (ADLs), ensures a safe and comfortable environment, and supports licensed nursing staff in delivering individualized care in accordance with regulatory requirements and facility policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct resident care, including assistance with bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, incontinent care as applicable, oral hygiene and feeding.
• Measure and record vital signs, weight, percentage of meal consumed, intake/output as directed.
• Assist residents with mobility, transfers, and positioning using proper body mechanics and lift equipment as applicable.
• Respond promptly to call lights, resident needs, and changes in condition; report observations to licensed nursing staff.
• Support residents’ independence and dignity, while ensuring safety and comfort.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation in accordance with facility procedures.
• Follow infection control, safety, and universal precaution guidelines at all times.
• Provide emotional support and companionship to residents, fostering a positive living environment.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and comfortable environment.
• Provide postmortem care.
• Make routine rounds on each assigned resident every two hours.
• Provide skin care and observe residents’ skin when giving care and report changes to licensed nurse.
• Modify own behavior in response to residents’ behaviors.
• Is aware of developmental tasks associated with the aging process.
• Contributes to the residents’ assessment (MDS/CAA’s) and the plan of care.
• Provides nursing rehabilitation/restorative nursing services.
• Promote residents’ ability to adapt and adjust to living as independently as possible.
• Assist the resident in self-care according to the resident’s abilities.
• Assist the residents in the use of assistive devices for transferring, walking and mobility, dressing and grooming, eating and swallowing.
• Maintain range of motion, proper turning and positioning in bed and chair.
• Assist with bowel and bladder retraining.
• Instruct the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices.
• Incorporate training and skill practice activities, which include repetition, physical or verbal cueing, and task segmentation.
• Cares for residents with Dementia.
• Knows how to respond to residents’ behaviors.
• Allows residents to make personal choices.
• Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with residents’ dignity.
• Uses the resident’s families as a source of emotional support for the resident.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of behavior and functional symptoms associated with dementia by providing interventions and treatments to help reduce these symptoms.
• Uses modification in the presentation of activities of daily living to maintain and maximize resident functions.
• Uses effective intervention techniques to address behavioral concerns.
• Assists with transporting residents to activities.
• Demonstrates effective communication techniques for residents with dementia.
• Provides non-resident care including but not limited to:
• Wash wheelchairs.
• Cleaning soiled utility areas.
• Cleaning shower and whirlpool rooms.
• Cleaning kitchen areas on the nursing unit.
• Performs other duties assigned.

Qualifications

• High School Graduate/GED
• Must be a State Tested Nursing Assistant in good standing with the certification board or is a graduate of a state approved nursing assistant training program and passed a state approved competency examination (written and skills) within 120 days of employment; name entered into state nurse aide registry.
• Computer skills are required.
• Meets all state and federal criminal background check requirements.

Salary

$18.50 - $26.00