Certified Nurse Asssistant- CNA Hospice

Preferred Care Health Centers; New Jersey; On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Swan Hospice in New Jersey is seeking a Certified Home Health Aid (CHHA) with hospice experience to join our dedicated team. The role involves providing quality hospice care to patients while treating them and their families with kindness and respect.

The ideal candidate will have an HHA License in NJ, a minimum of one year experience in hospice, and dependable transportation. This position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and private homes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience working in hospice.
• Ability to assist with prescribed exercise and ROM activities.
• Capable of reporting changes in resident's/patient's condition.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the prescribed exercise and ROM activities.
• Provide assistance in toileting and positioning.
• Assist in ADL activities like personal hygiene and grooming.
• Remind the patient to take medication.
• Assist with light housekeeping of the personal unit.
• Feed and assist with meals.
• Obtain temperature, pulse, and respiration.
• Report any changes in condition to the Hospice Nurse.

Skills

HHA License in the state of NJ

Understanding of hospice philosophy

Dependable transportation

Job description

Swan Hospice is looking for CHHA (Certified Home Health Aid) with Hospice experience to join our team.

We provide quality hospice care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and in private homes. We treat residents, families and loved ones with kindness, respect, compassion and dignity. We have a comprehensive team that can provide support and stability to residents and staff.

Job Responsibilities

• Assists with the prescribed exercise and ROM activities which the resident/patient and Hospice aide have been taught by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provides assistance in toileting; positioning and transfer activities, frequent turning and positioning of a bed bound resident/patient.
• Provides or assists in ADL activities; personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails.
• Assists or reminds the patient to take medication, in compliance with regulations of appropriate regulatory and accrediting bodies.
• Assists with light housekeeping of individual's personal unit or room, including changing of bed linen, if needed and patient laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports any changes in resident's/patient's condition to the Hospice Nurse and, if in a facility, to the facility nurse and documents the information, including the date and time of the report and the person receiving the information.

Ideal Candidates

• HHA License in the state of NJ
• Understands the hospice philosophy
• Minimum of one year experience working in hospice
• Dependable transportation