(INACTIVE) Certified Nurse Aide

Certified Nursing Assistant Job Duties:

• Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.


• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.


• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, nonsterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.


• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.


• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.


• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.


• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.


• Protects organization's value by keeping patient information confidential.


• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.


• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.


• Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

• Minimum 1 month of Nursing Home experience


• NYS Certified CNA


• SigmaCare experience a plus (but not required)