Certified Nursing Assistant (LTC, Float)

Key Accountabilities

• Performs delegated patient care activities using evidence-based practice and specific competencies for the resident population served.

• Assists in meeting the care needs of the resident in collaboration with the care team to ensure quality, cost-effective, safe resident care.

• Demonstrates clinical expertise in the provision of care in the long term and rehabilitative care setting of the skilled nursing facility.

• Performs all functions of the certified nursing assistant which are age appropriate, developmentally sensitive, and culturally specific.

• Respectfully addresses situations or decisions to ensure resident concerns and needs are met.

• Identifies ways to improve the residents experience of care, streamline care processes, and lower costs to improve resident, family, and team member satisfaction.

• Identifies and escalates resident risk to prevent crises.

• Demonstrates professional and therapeutic relationships with residents, families, team members, and providers.

• Reinforces resident education to improve care outcomes and safe resident practices.

• Performs and documents resident cares including personal hygiene, mobility, activities of daily living, and ensures the care environment promotes resident safety.

• Checks resident vitals, height, and weight as needed based on care plan.

• Obtains and reports patient intake and output as directed.

• Collects body fluids for testing and culture as delegated by RN or LPN (examples: urine or stool samples).

• Provides resident care as defined within the nursing care plan, provider orders, and within the scope of the C.N.A. role.

• Obtains point of care blood sugars as ordered. Apply specific creams and lotions as delegated by RN or LPN.

• Supports meeting resident dietary needs through gathering resident meal orders, water pass, snack pass, meal tray pass and set up, and assist with feeding as indicated in care plan.

• Ambulates residents in accordance with care plan.

• Proficient in use of mechanical transfer devices such as slide boards, hoyer lifts, sit to stand devices, etc.

• Proficient in use and care of oxygen, including filling containers and appropriate application on resident.

• Supports healthy urinary and bowel function by understanding and following toileting programs, providing routine indwelling urinary catheter care, and ostomy care as needed.

• Supports skin integrity by proper positioning and repositioning of all residents, assures specialty products are in place as needed (specialty mattresses, wheelchair cushions, etc.).

• Performs restorative therapy for long term care residents as directed by therapy restorative care plan.

• Assures home like environment within resident rooms by making beds, emptying trash as needed, and respecting resident personal belongings.

• Maintains C.N.A. certification as required by regulatory agencies.

• Collects clinical data and information on residents and reports to care team.

• Must achieve 12 hours of in-service education annually as required by federal regulations (SNF)

Qualifications

• Valid State of Wisconsin C.N.A. certification required

• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

• 2 years of healthcare experience preferred.

• Position requires float between Juliette Manor, Peabody Manor and Cherry Meadows

Physical Demands

• Ability to move freely (standing, stooping, walking, bending, pushing and pulling) and lift up to a maximum of fifty (50) pounds without assistance

• Category 1: Job classification is exposed to blood borne pathogens (blood or bodily fluids) while performing job duties

Work Environment

• Frequent exposure to sharp objects and instruments

• Occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. 

• Occasional high noise level in work environment.

• Possible exposure to communicable diseases, hazardous materials, and pharmacological agents.

• Transporting, transferring, positioning patients and/or equipment from one location to another; little likelihood for injury if proper body mechanics and procedures are followed

• Occasional contact with aggressive and or combative patients.