Certified Nurse Assistant with Dementia Care Experience

Certified Nurse Assistant with Dementia Care Experience

Job Purpose Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs providing comfort transportation and vital sign monitoring. 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. Skills Qualifications Multi-tasking Medical Teamwork Bedside Manner Infection Control Nursing Skills Health Promotion and