Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)

Certifield Nurse Assistant (CNA)

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Advantage Living Centers expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork, exemplify the values of CARING (Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Nimbleness and Generosity and uphold the pursuit of creating a person-centered culture for Residents and Team Members. To perform this job successfully, an individual must also be able to perform each key function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the key functions.

Care and services :

• Takes and records vital signs.
• Measures and records height and weight.
• Calculates and records weight gain or loss.
• Calculates and records fluid intake and output.
• Cares for the resident’s environment.
• Recognizes abnormal changes in body functioning and the importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor.
• Cares for residents when death is imminent.
• Makes routine rounds on each assigned resident every two hours.
• Bathes residents.
• Assists with grooming, including mouth care.
• Dresses residents.
• Toilets residents.
• Assists with eating and hydration.
• Uses proper feeding techniques.
• Calculates and records percentage of meal eaten.
• Observes resident’s skin when giving care and reports changes to licensed nurse.
• Provides skin care.
• Transfers, positions and turns residents.
• Meets resident’s mental health and social service needs.
• Modifies own behavior in response to residents’ behaviors.
• Is aware of developmental tasks associated with the aging process.
• Knows how to respond to residents’ behaviors.
• Allows residents to make personal choices.
• Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with the residents’ dignity.
• Uses the residents’ families as a source of emotional support for the resident.
• Contributes to the resident’s assessment (MDS / RAPs) and the plan of care.
• Provides nursing rehabilitation / restorative nursing services

1. Promote resident’s ability to adopt and adjust to living as independently as possible.

2. Trains the resident in self-care according to the resident’s abilities.

3. Trains the resident in the use of assistive devices for transferring, walking and mobility, dressing and grooming, eating and swallowing.

4. Maintains range of motion; proper turning and positioning in bed and chair.

5. Assists with bowel and bladder retraining.

6. Instructs the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices.

7. Incorporates training and skill practice activities, which include repetition, physical or verbal cueing and task segmentation.

1. Knows how to respond to residents’ behaviors.

2. Allows residents to make personal choices.

3. Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with residents’ dignity.

4. Uses the resident’s families as a source of emotional support for the resident.

5. Demonstrates a basic understanding of behavior and functional symptoms associated with dementia by providing interventions and treatments to help reduce these symptoms.

6. Uses modification in the presentation of activities of daily living to maintain and maximize resident competencies and functions.

7. Uses effective intervention techniques to address behavioral concerns.

8. Acts as a facilitator for activity programming.

9. Demonstrates effective communication techniques for persons with dementia.

1. Washing wheelchairs.

2. Cleaning soiled utility areas.

3. Cleaning nurse’s station.

4. Cleaning shower and whirlpool rooms.

5. Cleaning kitchen areas on the nursing unit.

Resident Rights : Promotes and protects resident’s rights; supports the resident in the exercise of his or her rights. assists residents to make informed decisions; treats residents with dignity and respect; protects resident’s personal belongings; reports suspected abuse neglect, exploitation or misappropriation of property; avoids the need for physical restraints in accordance with current professional standards; supports independent expression, choice and decision-making consistent with applicable law and regulation