CNA Certified Nurse Assistant

Huntingdon Park Nursing Home; Taylor Highlands (PA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntingdon Park Nursing Home is seeking CNAs to join our team to provide direct resident care under licensed nurses. We value compassionate, self-driven staff who help meet residents’ personal care needs and support a home-like environment aligned with each care plan.

You will perform bathing, dressing, feeding, helps with mobility, monitor vital signs, and document care. Strong communication with residents and nursing staff is essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate with residents and nursing staff.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Prior LTC CNA experience or equivalent training preferred.

Responsibilities

• Answers signal lights and monitors residents' needs; ensures call lights are within reach.
• Provides direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Assists residents with activities of daily living and mobility needs.
• Records meal intake and hydration; reports changes to nurses.
• Maintains cleanliness of resident units and supplies; follows infection control guidelines.
• Performs and documents nursing tasks as outlined in care plans.
• Transports residents as needed and assists with positioning and transfers.
• Performs post-mortem care as instructed.

Skills

Excellent communication

English fluency

Compassionate care

Patient care

Team collaboration

Education

State Approved Nursing Assistant Training & Competency Evaluation Program

Job description

Huntingdon Park Nursing Home is seeking CNAs to join our team.

Join a team that is continuously growing and advancing in long term care!

Summary

We are looking for compassionate and self-driven CNAs to perform direct resident care under the supervision of liscensed nurses. Our CNAs ensure that resident's personal care needs are being met in accordance with residents' wishes and care plan objectives, as well as promoting a home-like environment for the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of our residents.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs and ensures call lights are within reach of resident.

• Ensures that residents' who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.

• Gives direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of residents.

• Explains procedures to residents.

• Assists residents as necessary in their activities of daily living.

• Assists residents with bowel and bladder functions, Assists residents in preparation for and transporting to appointments, activities and social programs.

• Assists with lifting, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs.

• Provides incontinent care as needed. Dresses resident appropriate to the current weather,

• Notifies Supervisor if resident needs clothing.

• Changes bed linens.

• Handles linens according to infection control guidelines.

• Feeds residents requiring help and records meal intake.

• Delivers and documents all snacks and supplements.

• Offers fluids to residents frequently to ensure that residents are hydrated where designated by care plan.

• Reviews and implements daily nursing needs as outlined by resident Care Plan or nurse managers.

• Transports residents or assists residents with mobility needs.

• Turns and repositions bedfast residents, alone or with assistance.

• Takes and records temperatures, blood pressure, pulse rates, respiration rates, height, weight, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.

• Monitors resident's activities and reports any irregularities of resident performance to nurse managers.

• Participates in and receives nursing report upon reporting and departing to/from work.

• Reports all changes in residents' conditions to supervisor.

• Cleans instruments and equipment and returns to proper area after use.

• Maintains cleanliness of residents units, central bathing area, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms, and linen closets.

• Provides post-mortem care as instructed.

• Accurately records all care as directed.

• Participates and attends periodic in-services and staff meetings.

• Understands and adheres to the guidelines of "Residents Rights".

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

EDUCATION / REQUIREMENTS:

Ability to communicate with residents and nursing staff. Ability to speak, read, and write English. Prior experience as LTC nursing assistant preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Successful completion of State Approved Nursing Assistant Training and Competency Evaluation Program. Good standing in the state registry is required.