Compassionate CNA: Direct Patient Care & Rehab Support

Fort-Lauderdale-Health-; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort Lauderdale Health and Rehab Center is seeking Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to join our growing team. CNAs play a vital role in providing compassionate patient care, including assistance with daily living activities, mobility, hygiene, and comfort, under the supervision of nursing staff.

Our setting emphasizes healing, wellness, and multidisciplinary collaboration to deliver high-quality care to residents.

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, nonsterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
• Maintains 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.
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
• Protects organization's value by keeping patient information confidential.
• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Job description

Fort Lauderdale Health and Rehab Center is seeking Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to join our growing team. CNAs play a vital role in providing compassionate patient care, including assistance with daily living activities, mobility, hygiene, and comfort, under the supervision of nursing staff.

Our setting emphasizes healing, wellness, and multidisciplinary collaboration to deliver high-quality care to residents.