CNA Trainee

CNA Trainee

The CNA Trainee will be employed by Sheboygan County Rocky Knoll and perform tasks that do not require the nurse aide certification but will expose you to the work. As you work for Sheboygan County Rocky Knoll, you will start earning a paycheck immediately while you work towards your NA certification. We will provide the necessary training through Lakeshore College. After you become certified, you will work as a CNA within our facility for at least 12 months and apply the skills you learned while training and working.

Essential Duties CNA Trainee :

• Assist with day-to-day activities in providing support to residents, nursing assistants, environmental services, dining, and life enrichment teams to provide high quality care.
• Shadow, observed, and assist assigned CNA during care times (ie : AM and HS Cares, NOCrounds)
• Provide second person assistance with mechanical lift transfers.
• Assist with serving meals and document meal intake.
• Make bedsleaving resident call lights easily accessible.
• Ensure rooms are tidy, stocked, and organized.
• Answer call lights, assist residents per scope of position and report to qualified team members if necessary.
• Transport residents (to and from meals, activities) per community / state regulations.

Essential Duties CNA :

Qualifications :

Work Environment & Physical Requirements :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, pushing, pulling, and crouching. The employee must frequently lift or move residents and equipment weighing over 50 pounds, therefore, sufficient endurance, strength, mobility, balance, flexibility, and coordination is required to perform care activities and emergency procedures. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Specific hearing abilities required by this job include, hearing conversation in noisy and quiet environments, locating a sound source and differentiating among non-speech sounds, and communicating through speech. Risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure is considered high.