Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Float Pool
Tenet HealthcareAbout the role
Overview
Be the heart of compassionate care in a patient care support role with us! In this vital role, you'll provide essential assistance and comfort to patients, ensuring they receive the best possible experience during their healthcare journey. If youre dedicated, empathetic, and ready to make a positive impact on patients' lives, we encourage you to apply today and become a crucial part of our caring team!
At Desert Regional Medical Center, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Career development and continuing education opportunities
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
Job Summary
Shift: Nights
Job type: Per Diem
Hours: 12hrs
The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) provides patient care under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse. Access to all patient health information is for treatment purposes only.
Responsibilities
- Maintains current California Nursing Assistant Certification at all times
- Maintains current Basic Life Support (BLS) at all times
- Maintains current Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) training at all times
- Performs general nursing procedures, teaching, interventions, goal setting and treatments (within scope of practice) and reports significant findings to the Registered Nurse (RN)
- Supports changes in clinical practice and assists the department director with implementing changes in the hospital policies or practices
- Participates in orientation of new staff as needed
- Ensures compliance, knowledge and adherence with hospital’s policies and procedures
- Maintains competence in practice
- Participates in quality improvement programs
- Provides skin care and hourly rounding to all assigned patients
- Knowledgeable of growth, development and treatment needed in various populations served
- Orients patients to room/unit and ensures patient communication, white boards are complete
- Utilizes universal precautions and ensures others do so as well
- Ensures call lights are answered timely and report patient needs, which are outside of the scope of practice, to the appropriate personnel
- Adheres to hospital attendance/tardiness policy
- Attends all required education
- Organizes care and assumes responsibility for assigned group of patients
- Demonstrates guest relations in communication, cooperation and providing assistance to patients, physicians, co-workers and visitors in a prompt and courteous manner
- Advocates and ensures patient rights are upheld
- Identifies patient safety risks and ensures patient safety is maintained
- Obtains and records vital signs, patient weight, activities of daily living, intake and output
- Notifies RN and documents changes in patient’s appearance or behavior
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