Nursing Assistant or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) | Long Term Care | PRN

Location :

Avera Creighton Care Center

Worker Type : PRN

Work Shift :

Rotating days / evenings / nights / weekends / holidays (United States of America)

Pay Range :

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$18.75 - $26.00

Position Highlights

PRN / Fill in as needed; days / nights / evenings

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

The Nurse Assistant is in training to become a Certified Nurse Assistant. The Nurse Assistant will provide direct personal care and services to residents in the skilled nursing facility which meet the physical academical social and spiritual needs on a daily basis to maintain and improve their highest level of independent function.

What you will do

• In training to become Nurse Assistant certified and / or Medication Aide certified.
• Provides assistance to residents with their activities of daily living.
• Performs routine and non-routine duties as directed by nursing staff. This may includes but not limited to assisting patients with bathing and dressing needs shaving oral hygiene bed making transfers into and out of bed repositioning toileting needs serving and collecting food trays encouraging and / or assisting with feeding answering call lights insuring a clean environment transporting patients upon admission and dismissal assisting with ambulation and orienting / reorienting of resident to the facility environment to insure resident safety.
• Performs blood pressure pulse temperature respiration and weight. Documents concise and factual information on the appropriate forms.
• Performs or assists residents in performing specific medical care activities in accordance with established policy and procedure to contribute to the patients plan of care. This includes assisting residents in performing restorative exercises collecting specimens as directed by nursing staff. Assessing and documenting completed cares. Provides feedback to nursing staff immediately on status or changes in patient conditions pain management and other important concerns.
• Assists with restocking supplies and maintaining appropriate work environment in unit including cleaning procedures.
• Participates in providing emotional educational and spiritual support for families.
• Complies with all aspects of resident rights including confidentiality and privacy. Report all allegations of resident abuse or misappropriation of resident property.
• Understands and follows established policy and procedures related to fire tornado evacuation disaster plan universal precautions infection control procedures hazardous and chemical communication program. Maintains an environment that is clean and safe for all residents families and staff.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others hear understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education License / Certification or Work Experience :

Preferred Education License / Certification or Work Experience :

Expectations and Standards

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability Veteran Status or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application please call 1- or send an email to .

Key Skills

Nurse Management,Patient Care,Hospital Experience,Employee Evaluation,Acute Care,Healthcare Management,Management Experience,Primary Care Experience,Conflict Management,Nursing,Leadership Experience,Supervising Experience

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 18 - 26