Patient Care Assistant (CNA) – Compassionate Team Player

GBMC HealthCare; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 42,981,120 - 63,038,976; Full time

Job summary

GBMC HealthCare is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant in Baltimore, MD to assist the professional nurse in direct and indirect patient care under supervision.

The role requires high school diploma, CPR certification, active CNA license in Maryland, and at least 6 months of direct patient care experience. You will participate in daily living activities, monitor patient conditions, and support safe, compassionate care in a team environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and write English to provide basic patient care, understand and communicate detailed instructions relating to basic patient care, and perform simple calculations to take and record weights, vital signs, and routine information in patient charts
• Interpersonal skills necessary to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, and other staff in a courteous manner.
• Competent to safely handle medications

Responsibilities

• Provides care, comfort, and safety of assigned patients under direct supervision of nurse
• Uses proper infection prevention techniques
• Performs and records delegated nursing care procedures
• Observes patients and reports reactions or changes in condition to appropriate nursing personnel
• Utilizes resources conscientiously
• Assists patients with basic activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, etc.), including changing linens
• Assists in patient mobility and turning, as needed
• Transfers/ transports medications from one area to another as needed
• Distributes patient trays and nourishments, fills water pitchers, assists patients with feeding if necessary, and collects trays at end of meal as needed
• Promptly responds to patients' call lights to determine patients' needs in a timely manner and responds to routine requests and relays information to nursing personnel as needed

Skills

English literacy

Interpersonal skills

Medication handling

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

Job description

GBMC HealthCare is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant in Baltimore, MD to assist the professional nurse in direct and indirect patient care under supervision.

The role requires high school diploma, CPR certification, active CNA license in Maryland, and at least 6 months of direct patient care experience. You will participate in daily living activities, monitor patient conditions, and support safe, compassionate care in a team environment.