Certified Nursing Aide (CNA)

Job Description

Job Description

Certified Nursing Assistant

Reports To : DON

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

Location : Crook County Medical Services District

POSITION SUMMARY

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring. The CNA provides high-quality and cost-effective personalized care to residents / patients and performs duties under the direction of the charge nurse.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides residents' / patients' personal hygiene by providing bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning / repositioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides additional care within the scope of practice as defined by the Wyoming Board of Nursing.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; obtaining urine and fecal specimens; recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering residents' / patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to charge nurse.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
• Protects organization's value by keeping patient information confidential.
• Serves and protects Crook County Medical Services District (CCMSD) community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures and federal, state, and local requirements.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• Enhances nursing department and CCMSD's reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• All other duties as assigned by the Charge Nurse and / or Director of Nursing.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum age of sixteen (16) for Long Term Care and twenty-one (21) for Acute Care.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Licensed CNA in the State of Wyoming. Experience involving the use of clinical information programs preferred.