Restorative Aide

Regency Pacific; Tacoma (WA); Presencial; USD 36 000 - 48 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Regency Pacific is seeking a CNA to provide resident care under licensed therapists. The role focuses on restorative programs, aiding transfers, ROM, and daily activities while documenting patient progress and ensuring safety and comfort throughout therapy sessions.

Responsibilities include sanitizing therapy equipment, supporting ambulation, and guiding residents through treatment plans, while maintaining compassionate care and accurate notes on resident responses.

Qualificações

• Must hold current CNA Certification in State employed.
• A minimum of three months' prior Nursing Assistant experience in long-term care is preferred.
• Current First Aid and CPR

Responsabilidades

• Provides resident care support under the direction of a licensed therapist.
• Assists residents to participate in tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance their performance.
• Communicates observations of residents' conditions and documents changes.
• Sanitizes whirlpools, tubs, and showers used in restorative therapy and assists with ambulation and transfers.
• Performs restorative care treatments and ROM exercises.
• Encourages residents to perform daily ADLs and participates in treatment procedures.
• Supervises and instructs residents during therapy and prepares necessary equipment.
• Reassures residents before and during therapy and ensures notes describe treatment and responses.
• Ambulates residents according to care plans and documents progress.

Conhecimentos

CNA Certification

Restorative care

Documentation

Formação académica

High school diploma or equivalent

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Lots of hiking and outdoor activities nearby. Less than an hour from Seattle's famous Pike's Place Market, the Space Needle, and less than 3 hours from Oregon.

Must be a CNA!

Provides resident care support under the direction of a licensed therapist. Assists residents to participate in tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance their performance. A restorative aide’s duties and responsibilities include assisting patients with transfers, walking, strength training, and range of motion exercises, documenting service and changes in the patient’s conditions, assisting patients with dressing or grooming, applying and monitoring splinting, and helping with amputation and prosthesis care.

• Responsible for carrying out individual restorative programs designed by the Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist.
• Communicates observations of residents' conditions, preventing residents' neglect, abuse, and violations of rights and privacy, and promoting continuity of care through accurate and timely documentation and reporting.
• Sanitization of whirlpools, tubs, and showers when used in restorative therapy, and assisting residents with ambulation and transfer as needed.
• Perform restorative care treatments.
• Encourage residents to perform or participate in daily ADL functions.
• Demonstrate to residents and staff, as necessary, the procedures involved in the treatment process.
• Recommend modifications and changes in the resident’s restorative care as indicated.
• Instruct and supervise resident during therapy.
• A brief resident of procedures involved in restorative care and prepare the necessary equipment.
• Prepare resident for treatment by dress/position and administer restorative care in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Reassure resident before and during therapy treatment.
• Assure that all restorative care notes are informative and descriptive of the treatment provided and of the resident’s response to the care.
• Ambulate residents in accordance with the resident’s plan of care.
• Provide a range of motion (ROM) in accordance with the resident’s plan of care.

Position Requirements:

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must hold current CNA Certification in State employed.
• A minimum of three months' prior Nursing Assistant experience in long-term care is preferred.
• Current First Aid and CPR

An Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)