CNA

Caring Healthcare; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Caring Healthcare in Corpus Christi, TX is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to support patients with daily living tasks, hygiene, and comfort measures. You will assist with meals, mobility, and monitoring, helping ensure dignity and safety during every shift.

The role emphasizes timely documentation, adherence to hospital policies, and teamwork with nursing staff to respond to patient needs and maintain a calm, healing environment.

Responsibilities

• Provides patients' personal hygiene by helping with bedpans, baths, and grooming.
• Assists with activities of daily living including meals, ambulation, and positioning.
• Administers adjunct care such as sitz baths, ice packs, and non-sterile dressings.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vitals, weight, and input/output recording.
• Enhances patient comfort by transporting patients and responding to calls.
• Documents actions by completing forms, logs, and records.
• Adheres to hospital policies and local requirements.

Job description

Job Description If you're interested in helping patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring, then the Certified Nursing Assistant role may be the right fit for you

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
• Maintain patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Serves hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and standards