Nurse Aide (In Training)

Dawson Springs Health & Rehab a Concord Health Systems facility; Dawson Springs (KY); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Dawson Springs Health & Rehab, a Concord Health Systems facility, seeks a nurse aide to provide direct resident care under nursing and medical staff supervision. Responsibilities include feeding, bathing, mobility assistance, and reporting resident status in the medical record.

Training is provided for tasks such as feeding assistance and equipment operation. The role requires compassion, reliability, and the ability to respond to residents promptly and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Performs care of residents under direction of nursing and medical staff.
• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom to determine needs.
• Bathes, dresses, and undresses residents.
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds residents requiring help after training.
• Transports residents using wheelchair or wheeled cart, or assists residents to walk.
• Turns and repositions residents requiring physical assistance to maintain skin integrity.
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone as needed.
• Monitors food and fluid intake and output as directed.
• Cleans, sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues supplies as needed.
• Reports resident status to the nurse and documents in the medical record.
• May be assigned other duties.

Job description

Job Duties:

• Performs anycombination of following duties in care of residents under direction of nursingand medical staff.
• Answers signallights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents’ needs.
• Bathes, dresses,and undresses residents.
• Serves and collectfood trays and feeds residents requiring help after training.
• Transportsresidents, using wheelchair or wheeled cart, or assists residents to walk.
• Turns andrepositions residents requiring physical assistance, alone or with assistance,to maintain good skin integrity.
• Changes bedlinens, run errands, direct visitors, and answers telephone as needed.
• Food and fluidintake and output, as directed.
• Cleans,sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues supplies as needed.
• Reports residentstatus to the nurse on duty and documents in the written medical record asrequired.
• May be assignedother duties.

Concord Health Systems shall not use any individualworking in a facility as a nurse aide if within four (4) months the individualhas not completed and passed the nurse aide training and competency testing. (Training provided, if qualified.)