Hospice House LNA Weekend Baylor

Description

Job Type: Full-time/32 hours

Friday 7:00 a.m . - 3:00 p.m., 

Baylor Shifts Saturday and Sunday 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.    

Position Overview

Reporting to the Hospice House Manager, the Granite VNA Hospice House LNA delivers age appropriate quality of life care to residents in facility settings utilizing standard nursing assistant best practice within scope of practice defined by the NH Board of Nursing. The Hospice House LNA will effectively interact with residents, family members, facility staff and other healthcare team members while maintaining professional standards.  

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrates professional, emotionally appropriate behavior that is consistently supportive and responsive to other individuals with whom the LNA has contact in the course of their work.
• Follows care plan in providing basic care and services to the client including assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADL): walking, bathing, shaving, mouth care, grooming, eating, transfers, and management of incontinence.
• Communicates with nurses involved in the resident’s care plan; observes, records and reports changes in resident’s condition, status, or other pertinent information to the nursing staff clearly, concisely and in a timely manner.
• Documents care provided to the resident accurately in accordance to the agency’s guidelines.
• Does laundry, housekeeping and maintenance to assure a safe, orderly, clean and comfortable environment
• Provides supervision to residents with cognitive deficit
• Communicates to the Operations Coordinator to arrange to have furniture/equipment fixed when needed. Remove the equipment from the patient care area  
• Ensures residents have the opportunity to engage in cultural, spiritual, physical, political, social and intelligent activities as the
• Maintains calm, rational manner when dealing with others, even in situations involving conflict or crisis.
• Works independently on individual assignments yet support the needs of the total work unit
• Complies with the Agency’s Paraprofessional Commitment to Compliance with regards to the submission of visit documentation and time entry in accordance with agency time frames. Complies with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) scheduling requirements.  
• Communicates clearly and courteously with others including client, family members, and other agency staff.
• Practices safe work habits and proper body mechanics.

Other Job Functions

• Aids and support to volunteers
• Respect volunteers as an integral part of the Hospice Team
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Meets the Agency-required Hospice and Licensed Nursing Assistant education requirements annually.
• Completes core licensed nursing assistant competencies annually. 
• Performs job duties in a safe manner in order to prevent injury to yourself and others

Work Environment

The employee will be exposed to a variety of uncontrolled work environments. The employee may be exposed to all kinds of weather conditions while driving to and from work assignments. The employee may also be exposed to blood and bodily fluids, virus, disease and infection from patients and environmental hazards in the work environment. The employee may be required to work extended periods of time using a mobile device.  

This is a Field Work position. Primary work location is in the Hospice House direct patient care. Not eligible for remote or work from home.

Expected Hours of Work

The employee will be scheduled to work based on the employee’s availability for work as well as program and Agency needs. Hours of work are defined in the Employment Agreement. Work assignments may include holiday, weekend and/or on-call rotation. No employee is ever required to perform work that he or she believes in unsafe, or that he or she thinks is likely to cause injury or a health risk to themselves or others.  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific abilities include reading, writing and speaking in English, normal or correctable vision with the ability to accurately discern colors, and hearing.
• This position requires the ability to use a mobile device to document patient care. Specific abilities include use of fine motor skills to type, write and perform skills.
• This position requires intermittent physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping and crouching as well as lifting and supporting patients.  
• This position requires the ability to minimally lift up to 25 lbs. and the ability to provide up to 75% assistance for patient transfers.

Requirements

1. High School Diploma/GED, accompanied by current New Hampshire LNA license
2. One year of recent experience as a Licensed Nursing Assistant