Certified Nurse Assistant

Job Summary :

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) assists residents with daily living activities, including basic hygiene, health-related tasks such as taking vital signs and collecting specimens, and transporting residents to appointments. The CNA also assists the patient care team by performing designated patient care procedures.

Location : Arkansas, United States

Responsibilities :

• Assist residents with basic hygiene, including bathing, oral hygiene, and dressing.
• Perform health-related tasks such as taking and recording vital signs and collecting specimens.
• Assist in emergency situations.
• Transport residents to appointments.
• Perform range of motion exercises.
• Ambulate patients.
• Position patients and provide skin care.
• Distribute linen and change beds as needed.
• Assist with feeding and meal delivery.
• Assist with routine hygiene care, including toileting and incontinent care.
• Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens.
• Obtain and record weights, vital signs, pulse oximetry, pain assessment, and I&O.
• Communicate patient status and report changes in patient condition to licensed professionals.
• Perform incentive spirometry.
• Transport patients and prepare them for diagnostic tests.
• Assist rehab therapists.
• Set up pulse oximetry / oxygen for oxygen therapy.
• Prepare rooms and provide post-mortem care.
• Prepare for admission and discharge.
• Assist nurses in emergency situations.
• Maintain and clean equipment.
• Perform oral and nasopharyngeal suctioning.
• Perform blood sugar finger sticks.
• Remove IV catheters per licensed nurse instruction.
• Perform EKGs (if department-specific responsibility).
• Answer unit phones and direct calls.
• Perform data entry into electronic medical database systems and document patient care.
• Perform selected patient registration activities.
• Coordinate equipment / supply needs and report equipment malfunctions.

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