Observation CNA (Nights)

Job Posting

Classification : Full-time Shift : Nights : 1830-0630 Schedule : 3 12-hour shifts, including every other weekend

Responsibilities & Duties

• Assists in preparation of unit, patient rooms, and beds for receiving patient admissions; Assists with transfers and discharges patients.
• Provides general nursing care, such as positioning patients, lifting and turning patients, applying special equipment, assisting with toileting and personal hygiene of patients.
• Assisting nurse in complicated treatment procedures.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake / output measurements per shift as ordered per protocol.
• Prepare patients for meals, serve and remove food trays, and assists with meals or feeding patients.
• Answers patient call lights, anticipates patients needs, and makes rounds to assigned patients. Able to assist families by answering and relaying questions appropriately.
• Attends in-service education programs as assigned. Attends unit meetings monthly. Completes assigned education on time.
• Practice careful, efficient, and non-wasteful use of supplies and linen, and follows established charge procedure for patient charge items.
• Maintains current knowledge to perform job to quality standards; knowledge of universal precautions, knowledge of infection control plan
• Works cooperatively with all staff and other departments; able to enter computer orders as needed; answers telephone and relays communication effectively and in a timely manner, sets up telemetry as ordered, able to run strips as ordered.
• Responds to emergency situations throughout the hospital as needed.
• Completes monthly assigned tasks.

Qualifications

Working Conditions

This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve.

Contact Information

Krista Carrillo

Human Resources Director

620-441-5902

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