Cna (on Call/Prn)

PACS Group; United States; Sur place; USD 36 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

PACS Group is seeking a dedicated nursing care provider to deliver routine daily nursing care per individualized care plans. You will identify residents, document care, and support their comfort and well-being across shifts.

Responsibilities include monitoring health changes, ensuring room readiness, and assisting with transfers, meals, and daily activities while maintaining safety and privacy standards.

Responsabilités

• Identify residents before treatments, meals, etc. using wristband or photo card.
• Record entries using approved abbreviations only.
• Report changes in resident condition to Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse promptly.
• Record entries on flow sheets, notes, charts clearly.
• Report accidents and incidents observed during shift.
• Protect resident information; report violations.
• Report unauthorized access to facility information system.
• Perform only trained nursing procedures.
• Ensure resident rooms are ready for arrival (beds made, tags up, etc.).
• Greet residents and escort to rooms; introduce roommates and staff.
• Make residents comfortable and attend to belongings and clothing.
• Assist with packing when transferring or discharging residents.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to receiving areas; assist with loading/unloading.
• Create and maintain warm, personal atmosphere and calm environment on unit and shift.
• Meet with nursing staff to identify and improve service areas.
• Report complaints and grievances by residents.
• Participate in nursing report and follow policies on exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Make beds and prepare rooms as instructed; cover as requested.
• Take and record temperatures, pulses, and respirations; weigh and measure residents as instructed.
• Check residents regularly to ensure needs are met; respond to calls promptly.
• Assist with food arrangements and monitor intake; report changes to nurse supervisor.
• Keep water pitchers clean and filled; ensure access for residents.
• Perform after-meal care and assist with daily routines.
• Complete tasks per policies; coordinate with inter-departmental staff to maintain services.
• Notify facility if tardy or absent; report occupational exposures.

Description du poste

General Purpose

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide each of your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the resident's assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors.

Essential Duties

• Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary.
• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
• Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.
• Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.
• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.
• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility's information system.
• Perform only those nursing care procedures that you have been trained to do.
• Ensure that the resident's room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
• Greet residents and escort them to their room.
• Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
• Make resident comfortable.
• Inventory and mark the resident's personal possessions as instructed.
• Store resident's clothing.
• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
• Assist with loading/unloading residents' to/from vehicles as necessary.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift's nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Make beds as instructed.
• Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Measure and record temperatures, pulses, and respirations (TPRs) of residents, as instructed. Weigh and measure residents as instructed.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Answer resident calls promptly.
• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).
• Record the resident's food/fluid intake. Report changes in the resident's eating habits to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Keep residents' water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
• Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident's hands, face, clothing, etc.).
• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility's policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.
• Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary).
• Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
• Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
• Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Observe disoriented and comatose residents. Record and report data as instructed
• Perform special treatments as instructed.
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