CNA - Compassionate Patient Care Aide

GBMC HealthCare; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

GBMC HealthCare in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to assist the professional nurse in delivering direct and indirect patient care under supervision. The role emphasizes patient safety, comfort, and accurate documentation of care and vital signs.

Required qualifications include a HS Diploma, Heart Saver CPR certification, and current Maryland CNA registration; at least 6 months of direct patient care experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• HS Diploma or equivalent.
• Heart Saver (CPR Certification).
• CNA.
• Current registration with State of Maryland Board of Nursing Examiners as a Certified Nursing Assistant.

Responsibilities

• Provides for care, comfort, and safety of assigned patients under direct supervision of nurse.
• Uses proper infection prevention techniques.
• Performs and records delegated nursing care procedures.
• Observes patients and reports reactions or changes in condition to appropriate nursing personnel.
• Utilizes resources conscientiously.
• Assists patients with basic activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, etc.), including changing linens.
• Assists in patient mobility and turning, as needed.
• Transfer/transport medications from one area to another as needed.
• Distributes patient trays and nourishments, fills water pitchers, assists patients with feeding if necessary, and collects trays at end of meal as needed.
• Promptly responds to patients' call lights to determine patients' needs in a timely manner and responds to routine requests and relays information to nursing personnel as needed.

Skills

English literacy

Interpersonal skills

Medication safety

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

Job description

GBMC HealthCare in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to assist the professional nurse in delivering direct and indirect patient care under supervision. The role emphasizes patient safety, comfort, and accurate documentation of care and vital signs.

Required qualifications include a HS Diploma, Heart Saver CPR certification, and current Maryland CNA registration; at least 6 months of direct patient care experience is preferred.