Home Health CNA- East Valley

Centrix Health Resources; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunrise Health Services seeks a Certified Nursing Assistant to provide personal care and support to terminally ill patients under the supervision of a nurse. The role emphasizes maintaining hygiene, safe environment, and assisting with meals and mobility as part of an interdisciplinary care plan.

The position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, state certification if applicable, and at least one year of direct patient care in an institutional setting.

Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Proof of state certification, if applicable.
• One-year direct patient care experience in an institutional setting.

Responsibilities

• Performs personal care activities as assigned to support patient hygiene.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for the patient.
• Assists with meals, feeding, and special diets as instructed.
• Assists with ambulation and use of mobility aids under supervision.
• Supports basic treatments and routine care under nurse guidance.
• Encourages independence and engages patient in activities per care plan.
• Reports changes in patient condition to the nurse and team.

Skills

Empathy

Patient safety

Communication

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

State certification (where applicable)

One year direct patient care experience

Job description

FUNCTION

The Certified Nursing Assistant is an employee, trained to provide personal care and services to the terminally ill to augment that care given by family members. She/he functions under the direction, instruction and supervision of the Nurse and/or the Nurse Supervisor.

Job Responsibilities

• Performs only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment which may include: Helping the patient to maintain good personal hygiene.
• Assisting in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals. Grocery shopping when instructed to do so by the nurse. Assisting in feeding patient when needed. Assisting in measuring and preparing special diets as ordered by the physician, and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient.
• Assisting the patient in ambulation. Assisting with the use of a walker or wheelchair as taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient.
• Assisting with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient including assisting with the change of the colostomy bag, reinforcement of a dressing, assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar, doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumen, measuring intake and output, and may assist with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
• Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises which the Certified Home Health Aide and patient have been taught by the nurse or the physical therapist.
• Encouraging the patient to become as independent as possible according to the interdisciplinary care plan.
• Attempting to promote patient's mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.

Other Responsibilities

• Gives simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and other members of the household.
• Reports any change in the patient's mental or physical condition or home situation to the Renaissance Hospice Nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Teaches basic care to the primary caregiver.
• Practices infection control measures per OSHA standards.
• Reads and records temperature, pulse and respiration.
• Keeps accurate records of patient's health care activities on interdisciplinary charts.
• Evaluates patient/family needs and assists in the preparation and execution of the interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Completes a minimum of 12 hours of in-services per year.
• Participates in at least one Quality Improvement activity yearly.

The Home Health Aide May Not

• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (such as an enema).
• Irrigate a colostomy or wound,
• Perform a gastric lavage or gavage.
• Catheterize a patient.
• Administer medications except those that are self-administered,
• Apply heat by any method.
• Care for a tracheotomy tube.
• Suction a patient.
• Do any personal health service which has not been included in the patient care plan by the Nurse.

DIRECTION RECEIVED

• Reports directly to the Sunrise Health Services Nurse and/or the Sunrise Health Services Nurse Supervisor.
• Receives clinical direction from the patient's primary nurse.

Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Proof of state certification, if applicable.
• One-year direct patient care experience in an institutional setting.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel per job requirements.
• Telephone available in home.