Night Shift CNA - Starting wage $19.30 + 4% differential pay. Earn even more for if you have experience or a Med Aide license! Chimney Rock Villa has Full Time and Part Time positions available for 12 night hour shifts. Excellent pay plus additional 4% shift differential for nights. Must have current CNA certification through the State of Nebraska. Candidates must be able to work with minimum supervision and must be friendly and reliable. Full benefits available including health/dental/vision/life insurance, pension, and paid time off for full time employees.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Administrative Functions
· Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative and descriptive manner.
· Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
· Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.
· Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.
Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Functions
· Ensure that the resident's room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
· Greet residents and escort them to their room.
· Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
· Make resident comfortable (i.e., put to bed, get water, etc.).
· Inventory and mark the resident's personal possessions as instructed.
· Store resident's clothing.
· Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.
· Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
· Assist with loading/unloading residents from vehicles as necessary.
Committee Functions
· Serve on, participate in, and attend various committees of the facility as required, and as appointed by the Administrator.
Personnel Functions
· Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
· Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
· Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
· Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
· Meet with your shift's nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
· Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
· Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
· Notify the shift supervisor before leaving your assigned wing unattended.
Personal Nursing Care Functions
· Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
· Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
· Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care (i.e., brushing teeth/dentures, oral hygiene, special mouth care, etc.).
· Assist residents with bath functions (i.e., bedbath, tub or shower bath, etc.) as directed.
· Give backrubs as instructed.
· Assist residents with dressing/undressing as necessary.
· Assist residents with hair care functions (i.e., combing, brushing, shampooing, etc.).
· Assist residents with nail care (i.e., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails). (Note: Does not include diabetic residents.)
· Shave male residents.
· Keep hair on female residents clean shaven (i.e., facial hair, under arms, on legs, etc.) as instructed.
· Keep residents dry (i.e., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled).
· Change bed linens. Keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the resident.
· Make beds (occupied and unoccupied).
· Put extra covers on beds as requested.
· Position bedfast residents in correct and comfortable position.
· Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bedpan/urinal, portable commode, etc.).
· Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
· Keep incontinent residents clean and dry.
· Check and report bowel movements and character of stools as instructed.
· Collect specimens as instructed (i.e., urine, sputum, stools, etc.).
· Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
· Assist residents in preparing for activity and social programs (i.e., church services, parties, visitors, etc.).
· Assist in transporting residents to/from appointments, activity and social programs, etc., as necessary.
· Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
· Assist residents to walk with or without self-help devices as instructed.
· Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
· Provide eye and ear care (i.e., warm/cold compresses, eye/ear instillation, cleaning eyeglasses/hearing aides, etc.) as instructed.
· Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
· Weigh and measure residents as instructed.
· Measure and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations (TPRs), as instructed.
· Answer resident calls promptly.
· Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
· Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
· Assist with the care of the dying resident.
· Provide post-mortem care as instructed.
Special Nursing Care Functions
· Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
· Provide daily indwelling catheter care.
· Provide daily perineal care.
· Give tepid sponge baths.
· Provide daily Range of Motion Exercises. Record data as instructed.
· Turn bedfast residents at least every two (2) hours.
· Observe disoriented and comatose residents. Record and report data as instructed.
· Turn all medications found in the resident's room/possession over to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
· Provide residents with Reality Orientation as instructed.
· Watch for and report any change in room temperature, ventilation, lighting, etc.
Food Service Functions
· Prepare residents for meals (i.e., take to bathroom, wash hands, comb hair, raise bed, position tables, place bibs, take to/from dining room, etc.).
· Serve food trays. Assist with feeding as indicated (i.e., cutting foods, feeding, assist in dining room supervision, etc.).
· Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).
· Record the resident's food/fluid intake. Report changes in the resident's eating habits.
· Keep residents' water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
· Serve between meal and bedtime snacks.
· Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident's hands, face, clothing, take to bathroom, brush teeth, clean dentures, etc.).
· Check rooms for food articles (i.e., food in proper container, unauthorized food items, etc.).
Staff Development
· Attend and participate in scheduled training and educational classes to maintain current certification as a Nursing Assistant.
· Attend and participate in scheduled orientation programs and activities.
· Attend and participate in annual mandated OSHA and CDC in-service training programs for hazard communication, TB management, and bloodborne pathogens standard.
· Attend and participate in advance directive in-service training programs as scheduled.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $19.30 - $22.80 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
