Resident Assistant / PRN

NHC HealthCare, Charleston; Gallatin (TN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

NHC HealthCare, Charleston in Gallatin, TN is seeking passionate Resident Assistants to provide personal care and support residents in a skilled nursing environment. Join a team focused on patient care, teamwork, and collaboration.

Responsibilities include personal care tasks, vital sign monitoring, and maintaining a safe environment for residents. Experience in long-term care is preferred but not required. Our environment emphasizes teamwork, innovation, and integrity.

Qualifications

• Experience in long-term care, skilled nursing, or assisted living preferred.
• Ability to assist residents with daily living activities.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care (grooming, bathing, dressing) for residents.
• Record vital signs, weights, and report changes to the Charge Nurse.
• Maintain cleanliness of assigned areas and ensure safety standards.

Skills

Personal care

Teamwork

Communication

Observational skills

Job description

Overview

Welcome to NHC Place Sumner! We are seeking passionate Resident Assistants to join our Team! Do you have the heart to serve others? Do you want to work in an environment that puts you first? Our partner first focus allows you to focus on what matters most, the care of our patients. If you are looking to work in long term care, skilled nursing, assisted living or memory care, look no further.

Work Hours: Day Shift. 7pm-7am

Job Type: Full time

Experience: Long term care, skilled nursing and/or long-term care experience preferred, but not required.

Essential Job Functions

This facility expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents. Therefore, the following list of duties is not all-inclusive:

• Provide personal care (i.e., grooming, bathing, dressing, oral care, etc.) of residents daily and as needed.
• Change bed linen and maintain appropriate grooming supplies in resident room on a regular basis.
• Ambulate and transfer residents, utilizing appropriate assistive devices and body mechanics.
• Record resident vital signs, weights and measurements, intake and output, food consumption, and other information as assigned.
• Routinely turn and position residents as necessary.
• Observe residents carefully and report changes in condition to Charge Nurse.
• Recognize a resident’s ability to make choices and support these within the constraints of the caregiving environment.
• Participate in collecting data needed for the accurate completion of the MDS and the plan of care. Provide input to the nurses for development of the plan of care.
• Provide adequate hydration to residents at regular intervals each day according to specific resident needs.
• Prepare residents for each meal and transport to dining room (unless resident on bed rest) making sure that food tray is accessible, self-help devices are available (if needed), and assistance is provided to those residents who cannot feed themselves.
• Keep an accurate record of food intake and output, as directed.
• Maintain established housekeeping standards within assigned duty areas.
• Assist nursing staff with the basics of aseptic and sterile techniques to avoid infection of residents and self-contamination of equipment and supplies.
• Be alert for proper ventilation, temperature, light and noise control.
• Take TPR, blood pressure, weighing of residents, etc. as directed.
• Promptly answer call lights and other resident needs.
• Utilize proper body mechanics when lifting or transporting residents.
• Assist in the orientation and training of other staff, as requested.
• Attend in-service education programs in order to meet facility educational requirements.
• Be familiar with Standard Precautions, Exposure Control Plan, Fire Drill and Evacuation Procedures and know how to use the information.
• Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility records/information.
• Protect residents from neglect, mistreatment, and abuse.
• Protect the personal property of the residents of the facility.
• Must adhere to attendance standards per Attendance Policy.
• General facility housekeeping.
• Deep cleaning of resident rooms and bathrooms.
• Others as directed by the supervisor or administrator.

Location

NHC Place Sumner, 140 Thorne Blvd. Gallatin Tennessee

The NHC environment is one of encouragement and challenge... innovation and improvement... teamwork and collaboration ... and honesty and integrity. All employees are committed as partners, not only to the health of our patients, but to the well-being of the communities we serve.

We look forward to talking with you!!

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