CNA Part-Time

CNA 12 Hrs shifts available

Kern River Transitional Care Center is a special nursing facility and fosters a wonderful working environment. Our leadership understands the importance of honoring, appreciating, and prioritizing the staff. When staff love their jobs, residents receive superior care.

Our goal is to wonderfully enrich thousands of lives, one person at a time. We are dedicated to providing person-centered health care services and are passionate about serving our residents and their families in a nurturing, transitional environment between hospital and home. Our RNs, LVNs and CNAs are passionate, committed, knowledgeable and caring. Most importantly, they love what they do. Our nurses are experts in their field. That’s why we look to our nurses to provide leadership that helps us achieve our vision of the highest quality of care on the market.

We love our employees and work hard to ensure our team members enjoy flexible scheduling, career stability, and opportunities for growth.

EOE - M/F/Disabled/Veterans

JOB DESCRIPTION

Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)

DEPARTMENT: Nursing

POSITION:
The Certified Nurse Assistant provides nursing and nursing related services to residents consistent with each resident’s comprehensive resident assessment and plan of care. All resident care is provided in a manner that meets the resident’s physical, mental and psychosocial needs and enables the individual to attain or maintain the highest practicable level of functioning. The Certified Nurse Assistant maintains a “homelike” environment for the residents, protects and promotes resident rights and assists the person to maintain independence and control to the greatest extent possible.

REPORTING:
This position is responsible to the Charge Nurse and Director of Staff Development.

FLSA STATUS: Non-Exempt

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:
Education:Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy

License:Current CNA certification issued by the local Department of Health Services or proof of successful completion of an approved OBRA certification program from another state to submit for certification. No findings in the State Nurse Aide Registry concerning physical, mental and/or verbal abuse, neglect, mistreatment of residents or misappropriation of resident’s property. (The state registry must be the state issuing the certification).

Work Experience: Prior experience giving personal care to impaired individuals in a health care setting preferred.

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_ Language Skills: _

! Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical information, and to be easily understood through verbal communication in the English language.

Mathematical Skills:

! Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

! Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, and volume.

_ Communication Skills: _

! Must have exceptional communication and customer service skills, and be empathetic.
! Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, responsible parties, staff and outside resources and agencies.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

! Provide direct care to residents to improve or maintain the resident’s abilities according to the resident’s plan of care

! Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) – Assist with bathing, grooming, oral care, dressing, mobility, transferring, and feeding of assigned residents by providing set-up assistance, verbal prompts, physical support or more extensive assistance, or who are totally dependent as more fully described below:

Bathing- Assist with transport of resident to tub or shower; Adjust water temperature; Wash and rinse resident.
Dry body thoroughly with clean towels. Maintain privacy for resident at all times

Revision Date: 03/01/14 1

Dressing- Locate, select and obtain clothing for resident. Assist residents with snaps, zippers, buttons after donning clothes or removing them. Recognize clothing in need of repair and communicate clothing needs to resident and Charge Nurse

Restorative Care- Assist the resident to maintain functioning at his/her highest independent level to prevent decrease in functioning unless clinically unavoidable through ambulation, range of motion exercises, use of assistive devices and maintaining proper body alignment to prevent contractures and deformities

Elimination/Toileting- Promptly assist residents to bathroom according to toileting schedule or, promptly bring clean bedpan or urinal. Open, remove clothing in preparation