CNA (PRN)

The Palms Nursing & Rehabilitation; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Palms Nursing & Rehabilitation in Corpus Christi, TX is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to support patients with daily living activities, personal hygiene, and mobility, ensuring comfort and safety.

Responsibilities include assisting with meals, monitoring vital signs, documenting care, reporting observations to nursing staff, transporting patients, and adhering to facility policies and state regulations.

Job description

Job Description If you're interested in helping patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring, then the Certified Nursing Assistant role may be the right fit for you Job Responsibilities: • Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths. • Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals. • Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints. • Maintain patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information. • Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor. • Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records. • Serves hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and standards