CNA

CommonSpirit Health; San Bernardino (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health's Community Hospital of San Bernardino is seeking a dedicated CNA to support patients with daily living activities and assist nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and room preparation.

The role requires completion of a CA state-approved CNA program, a CA CNA license, and BLS certification. You will work on-site in San Bernardino, supporting patient comfort and safety in a busy acute care setting.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a California State approved Nursing Assistant program.
• Three (3) months experience performing ADL’s in a healthcare facility.
• Active Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) license from the State of California.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding.
• Support nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and room preparation.
• Communicate, record, and report vitals and changes to licensed nursing personnel.
• Check and reposition immobile residents at least every two hours.
• Answer call lights and alarms promptly and address patient requests.
• Follow up on assignments and ensure continuity of care.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs monitoring

Observation

Communication

Education

CA CNA program certification

Tools

BLS Certification

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our CNA, you will help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.

Every day, you will directly support patients with tasks such as personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding, while also assisting nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and preparing patient rooms.

To be successful in this role, you will have a genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.

• Communicates, records, and reports promptly to the licensed nursing personnel vitals, treatment results, changes in patients condition, observations, patient complaints, and other pertinent information regarding the patient.
• Checks and repositions all immobile and incontinent residents at a minimum of every two hours providing needed incontinent care promptly as required by assigned unit.
• Promptly answers call lights and responds to alarms and patients requests.
• Follow-up on patient care responsibilities and assignments left from previous shift and reports to team leader any incomplete assignments to ensure continuity of care.
• Performs direct patient care activities for specific patient population according to established policies and procedures; adapts techniques to unique needs of each patient.
• Accurately places electrodes and activates telemetry monitoring, as assigned. Respond to request for telemetry/lead troubleshooting whether that of assigned patient or not.

Job Requirements

• Successful completion of a California State approved Nursing Assistant program.
• Three (3) months experience performing ADL’s(Activities of Daily Living) in a healthcare facility, including but not limited to home health, hospice, SNF, Rehab and acute care.
• Active Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) license from the State of California.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) American Heart Association.

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 343-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 75,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, maternity care and pediatrics, and behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children.

Additionally, Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been recognized with the gold seal of approval by the Joint Commission, as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and rated five stars for Children’s Subacute Center by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2025, we were voted Best Hospital by Inland Empire Magazine.

Community Hospital of San Bernardino shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care.

One Community. One Mission. One California

Pay Range

$25.00 - $28.02 /hour