CNA 11 PM to 730 AM

Onyx Health Consulting; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx Health Consulting is seeking a dedicated CNA to provide quality nursing care in a long-term care setting. You will support residents according to individualized care plans, maintain dignity, and respond promptly to call bells and care needs.

You will observe changes in residents and report to licensed staff while helping maintain a safe, clean, and homelike environment. The role emphasizes compassion and adherence to safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized attention to residents to maintain or attain highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial wellbeing.
• Know the individualized care plan and support residents according to it; share observations with charge nurse or care planning staff.
• Attend to residents' needs including grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, mobility, ROM, communication, or other care per plan and scope of practice.
• Maintain comfort, privacy, and dignity; interact with warmth to create a caring environment.
• Understand residents' rights, including freedom from restraints and abuse; uphold these rights at all times.
• Promptly report any incidents or abuse to the charge nurse or administration.
• Keep environment safe, neat, and clean; report lighting or equipment deficiencies.
• Protect residents’ belongings; report missing items and assist in locating them.
• Observe changes in condition or behavior and report to licensed nursing staff.
• Provide skin-care to prevent ulcers and skin damage by turning, repositioning immobile residents and applying moisturizers.
• Answer call bells promptly and courteously.
• Perform duties such as vital signs, weights, applying creams, collecting specimens as assigned by the charge nurse.
• Assist with orienting residents and families to the unit and to the nursing home during admissions and transfers.
• Escort residents to appointments and activities as needed.
• Complete CNA records with proper ADL documentation per department policies.
• Follow safety and infection control procedures including hand washing and gloves.
• Support a homelike atmosphere and participate in QAPI processes.

Job description

OVERVIEW:

Provide quality nursing care to residents in a long-term care environment which promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and their individuality under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide individualized attention which encourages each resident’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial wellbeing


• Knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for residents and provide support to the resident according to the care plan. Contribute to the care planning process by providing the charge nurse or other care planning staff with specific information and observations of the residents’ needs and preferences


• Attend to the individual needs of residents which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements, and scope of practice


• Maintain the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in the delivery of services to them. Interact with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment


• Fully understand all aspects of residents’ rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse


• Responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents’ rights


• Assist in maintaining a safe, neat, and clean environment; report environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems


• Protect the personal belongings of each resident including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing, memorabilia, etc. Promptly report missing items according to established policy and participate in efforts to locate missing items


• Observe residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly report these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel


• Provide care that maintains each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears, and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning, repositioning immobile residents, and applying moisturizers to fragile skin, etc.


• Answer residents’ call bells promptly and courteously


• Perform various tasks assigned by the charge nurse including vital signs, residents’ weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.


• Assist with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home upon admission and to the unit when transfers occur


• Assist and escort residents for appointments such as beauty shop, activities, church services, etc.


• Complete certified nursing assistant records while using proper coding of activities of Daily Living (ADLs) documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies


• Follow prescribed safety and infection control procedures including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated, and proper disposal of soiled materials


• Support an atmosphere which promotes a homelike environment


• Assist in the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) process