Certified Nursing Assistant Night Shift

Limited positions open in our East Liverpool Locations!

Sign on Bonus! TWI attendance bonus, Shift Diffs available!

3- 12 hour shifts and Rotating weekends!

Summary

Under the direction of the nursing staff, cares for residents at Stone Pear Pavilion while keeping them safe and comfortable during their activities of daily living by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Teamwork with the following and all other duties and responsibilities assigned.

• Provides care and services to residents as defined by individualized care plans. Care and services include, but are not limited to: ADL assistance, mobility assistance, positioning assistance and feeding assistance.
• Performs random rounds on each resident every two hours, starting upon arrival and finishing just prior to the end of the shift.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Participates in resident activity program.
• Documents care provided to residents using approved documentation method.
• Reports any change in resident condition to the charge nurse immediately.

Other Responsibilities:

• Assists with stocking supplies in clean utility rooms.
• Attend meetings and training sessions required for the position

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Certificate upon completion of an approved nurse's aide certification curriculum. Complete annual state mandated training requirements (Regular In-services as well as any external training).

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, procedure manuals and resident charting notes and directives. Ability to write routine reports, correspondence and perform resident charting. Ability to complete all assigned paperwork and charting. Ability to speak effectively with residents, family members, or employees in group or one-on-one situations.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals when determining a resident's weight loss or gain. Ability to estimate volume and percentages when documenting resident dietary and nourishment intake or output data.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense and understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions as given by the supervisor. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations dealing with the care of the residents, such as changing the order of duties needed to be carried out for a resident who sleeps a little later of assessing the best way to handle an agitated resident on a given day and still take care of their needs.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Certified Nurse Assistant certification. A Certified Nurse Assistant is required to work 8 hours and take 12 hours of training annually.

Other Skills and Abilities

Certified Nurse Assistant skills specific to geriatric residents are needed. May need additional skills with special-need geriatric residents such as those with dementia, Alzheimer's or those requiring skilled health care. Ability to use resident lift equipment.

Medical Screenings

A Tuberculosis testing are required annually.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus in situations such as but not limited to the following:

• Reading and writing reports (close vision and the ability to adjust focus)
• Recording of vital signs (close vision and the ability adjust focus)
• Watching over residents for their safety and monitoring their behavior (close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision)
• Keeping hallways and rooms safe (distance vision, close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus)
• Measuring liquids for input and output recording (close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus)
• Reading thermometers (close vision and ability to adjust focus)
• Assessing residents' skin texture and color (close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus)
• Observing resident’s breathing pattern from doorway at evening rounds (depth perception, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus)
• Dressing a resident or to identify proper adult protection for incontinence as they are color and size coordinated (close vision and color vision)
• Using devices to check color-coded wander guard bracelets (color vision, close vision, and ability to adjust focus)
• Assisting residents in walking with walker (close vision, distance vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus)

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to airborne viruses and bacteria, as well as blood-borne, fecal-borne, and other bodily pathogens carried by residents. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions while showering and bathing the residents. Showering or bathing residents may also present slip and fall hazards due to the wet conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes from bathroom odors and cleaners; toxic chemicals that may be used to clean bathrooms and kitchen areas; and outside weather conditions when taking the residents outdoors. The noise level in the work environment can be loud or when working at the nurse's station and in resident common areas where there are televisions and equipment operating, phones ringing, light to heavy traffic, and people talking. The noise level in the work environment drops to a quiet level during evening shifts and while in resident rooms throughout the day.

The Orchards is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability that can be reasonably accommodated without undue hardship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status.