CNA (Direct Care Support)
Job Description
Your responsibilities include (but are performed by):
Certified Nursing Assistant, who is licensed to practice in the
State of Georgia; having at least two years of home health, long-term care, or acute care nursing experience. As a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), you play a vital role in our community. Without you, we would not be able to fulfill our purpose! You provide total care for our residents, starting with carefully assisting with providing activities of daily living (ADLs) to residents (including washing, bathing, dressing, feeding, grooming, walking, transferring, skin care, toileting, oral care, and catheter care). You perform care as defined by the resident plan of care/CNA assignment card. You visit with residents and reposition as required.
With a close eye for detail, you record temperature, pulse, respiration, and weight. You also conduct a range of motion as needed.
You take great care to observe and report any change in condition, attitude, reaction, appetite, and behavior that you find when caring for your residents. You live up to the trust of those in your care by maintaining the confidentiality and following Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) requirements as well as upholding our facility policies and procedures. Your warm and friendly demeanor makes it easy for you to provide excellent customer service and build relationships with residents, their families, visitors, and your colleagues. You take pride in the difference you make in the lives of our residents and that makes you perfect for this nursing assistant position!
- Performing personal care tasks, including feeding, ambulation, and medical monitoring
- Understanding the needs of individuals affected by cognitive impairments.
- Supports and protects the fundamental human, civil, constitutional, and statutory rights of clients and families as defined by agency.
- Assisting individual with personal care and activities of daily living to include bathing, dressing, eating, toiletry, etc.
· Provide training or assistance in meal preparation, shopping, laundry, housekeeping, simple household repairs, and financial and medication management as needed.
- Completing necessary documentation (Progress Evaluations, Monitoring Notes, Behavior Documents, etc.)
- Ensuring that all information regarding any issues and needs of residents are recorded properly.
- Ensuring client safety and maintaining a safe environment
- Ensuring each resident’s personal hygiene and grooming needs are met.
- Provides training and assistance in changing appropriate apparel daily to ensure comfort and well-being for residents.
- Accompanying clients to scheduled appointments and possibly providing transportation.
- Ensuring compliance of responsibility during assigned hours with local, state, and federal rules and regulations.
- Supporting and protecting the fundamental human, civil, constitutional, and statutory rights of clients and families as defined by agency.
Qualifications for Certified Nursing Assistant
1. Successful completion of an approved nursing education program as defined in Code Section
43-26-3.
2. Successful passing of a board-recognized licensing examination.
3. Successful completion of the initial orientation and competency-based training provided by the provider agency and the State of Georgia.
- Services by a Certified Nursing Assistant include (but are not limited to):
● Assessment of individual’s nursing needs
- Initial healthcare plan(s) development (based upon assessed needs, risks, and active conditions)
● Development of teaching plan and caregiver(s) competency checklist;
● Implementation of ordered/indicated clinical and nursing interventions
● Preparation of clinical progress notes
● Coordination of healthcare services
● Current CPR certification
● Ability to maintain confidentiality and comply with all HIPPA regulations
● Informing the physician, support coordination, and other personnel of changes in the patient’s condition or needs
● Patient and family teaching
● Supervision (to be performed by RN) and teaching of other provider personnel (clinical and other direct support staff)
● Administering medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician in accordance with currently accepted standards of nursing practice
● Other services as needed
Other Qualification(s):
Active Support Care:
The assigned young adult must be provided with activities during the course of the day. Individuals should not be left to sit idle or unsupervised. An attempt must be made to provide them with some form of stimulation or engaging activity.
Behavioral Observation:
1. Redirect individual(s) in a timely effective manner preventing escalation of behavior.
2. Recognize when an intervention should be called and respond appropriately until team arrives.
3. Provide intervention support when team member arrives.
Professionalism:
Employees or contracted workers of Rosaleana’s are expected to always uphold a certain level of professionalism. You will need to exemplify appropriate behavior when in contact with individuals, families, the public and direct support staff as well as co-workers.
Physical Demands:
Regularly required to sit; frequently required to reach with hands and arms, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or hear; must be able to lift objects up to twenty-five pounds.
SHIFTS AVAILABLE:
1ST SHIFT 7AM - 3PM
2ND SHIFT 3PM-11PM
3RD SHIFT 11PM-7PM
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $13.00 - $15.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 – 72 per week
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- On call
- Overnight shift
- Weekends as needed
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Atlanta, GA 30315: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- Caregiving: 5 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CPR Certification (Required)
Shift availability:
- Day Shift (Preferred)
- Night Shift (Preferred)
- Overnight Shift (Preferred)
Work Location: In person