Certified Nursing Assistant

Description

 Global Dynamics is currently seeking CNAs' to join our team and work at a state of the art government facility. 

A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs requirements with minimal monitoring by a Registered Nurse (RN) and provides basic, appropriate, effective interventions to individual patient needs according to established facility policies, safety standards, and procedures. The CNA refers to the professional RN when deviations and problems not covered in the assignment occur. The CNA anticipates the needs of professional staff and works with them as a team member.

• Performs a range of personal nursing care, including feeding, walking, lifting, turning patients, and providing related hygiene care to patients using specialized equipment receiving oxygen or suction therapy. 
• Performs a range of diagnostic support duties which includes taking, recording, and reporting to the nurse deviations in vital signs and changes in patient’s condition such as diabetes, uremic coma, insulin shock, or gastro-intestinal hemorrhage, and reporting them to the nurse or doctor. 
• Assists the doctor in diagnostic examinations such as lumbar punctures, liver biopsy, bone marrow examinations, and emergency procedures. 
• Assembles necessary equipment and positions patients, collects, labels, and transports specimens to the laboratory. Checks patients frequently during and following procedures for changes in patients’ condition. 
• Escorts patients to and from diagnostic studies. Cleans and cares for oxygen and suction therapy equipment, frame beds, and reports equipment needing repair. 
• Performs a range of treatment procedures that include changing simple dressings. Cares for infection, communicable diseases, and infection isolation patients. Cares for patients receiving oxygen via cannula or mask and venti-mask, chest therapy, and postural drainage. Cares for patients with condom catheters as well as indwelling Foley catheters. Administers basic life support measures. 
• Verbally provides information to the nurse for inclusion in the Nursing Care Plans. Documents vital signs. Enters information about the patient’s condition in the patient’s chart. Assists with the completion of patients’ admission history.
• Promotes physical independence by supervising patients in self-care activities, including eating, dressing, and applying prosthetic devices and braces. 
• Instruct patients on pre and post-operative care based on general information provided by a doctor or nurse.
• May be required to work with COVID-19-positive patients and Patients Under investigation (PUI) for COVID-19. 

Requirements

• The minimum requirement for all certified Nursing Assistants assigned to the Medical Center shall include a current CNA certification from any state (United States) and a current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate accredited by the American Heart Association. Two (2) years minimum experience working in skill and (must have worked within the last six months in skill set).
• A Patient Care Technician (PCT) Certification/License or Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) certification/license will be acceptable in place of a Nursing Assistant certification.