Compassionate CNA — Hands-On Patient Care

Caring Healthcare; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Caring Healthcare is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to support patients' daily living needs, including personal hygiene, comfort, transportation, and monitoring vital signs in a hospital setting. The role emphasizes compassionate care and teamwork with the nursing staff.

Responsibilities include assisting with meals and mobility, managing basic adjunct care, documenting observations, and ensuring patient safety by reporting changes promptly.

Qualifications

• Provides patients' personal hygiene and daily living assistance.
• Learns and follows hospital policies and procedures.

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.

Job description

Caring Healthcare is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to support patients' daily living needs, including personal hygiene, comfort, transportation, and monitoring vital signs in a hospital setting. The role emphasizes compassionate care and teamwork with the nursing staff.

Responsibilities include assisting with meals and mobility, managing basic adjunct care, documenting observations, and ensuring patient safety by reporting changes promptly.