CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant
- Employer
- Riverside Healthcare
- Location
- Kankakee County, IL
- Closing date
- Oct 2, 2022
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At Riverside, every day brings new and exciting challenges. You can expect an interesting environment where youre part of making sure our organization is running optimally and safely, helping keep the community healthy. We provide the kind of paid training and opportunities that long-term careers are built on and we recognize hard workers who strive to make a difference. You will be able to succeed in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as a team. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!
Summary:
The CNA assists with the routine care of their assigned patients under the direction of the professional nurse in a care partner dyad. CNA will participate in pulling and floating to any unit based on patient census and acuity to assist with routine care responsibilities. CNA is supervised by the Patient Care Services Manager, Unit Director, Nurse Manager, Team Leader, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and care partner RN.
*Experience/Education Requirements: *
* Completion of certified nurse aid course.
* Nursing student who can show the competence of a semester of clinical rotation.
*License or Certification Requirements: *
* CNA certificate registered with the State of Illinois or equivalent.
* Current CPR certification or obtainment within 6 months of hiring with subsequent recertification preferred.
Responsibilities:
* Ability to transfer patients within the hospital environment and assist with bed mobility.
* Answer call lights in a timely and courteous manner.
* Assist patients with all aspects of ADL's; observes the patient for physical and/or mental changes.
* Document chartable activities in computer.
* Feed patients and give them between meal fluids and nourishments.
* Follow and maintain isolation procedures, especially chemo precautions and radium implant precautions.
* Follow the interdisciplinary plan of care developed by the professional nurse.
* Make beds, occupied or unoccupied.
* Observes patient and the environment for fall hazards.
* Observes patients for suicidal ideation and follow suicide precautions.
* Obtain and record patient weights: standing, bedscale, and wheelchair
* Perform bladder scan perform downtime procedures.
* Promotes safety for patients and visitors.
* Provides emotional support for patients and visitors.
* Reports changes in patients' condition to the professional nurse.
* Restock supplies in patients' rooms.
* Take temperatures, pulse, respirations, B/P's, and measure and document I & O's.
* Utilize safety restraints and assistive devices appropriately.
* Walking rounds
Credentials:
Essential:
\* Certified Nursing Assistant
Education:
Essential:
\* HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
INDNHJ
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
* 401(k)
* 401(k) matching
* Dental insurance
* Employee discount
* Flexible schedule
* Flexible spending account
* Health insurance
* Health savings account
* Life insurance
* Referral program
* Retirement plan
* Tuition reimbursement
* Vision insurance
COVID-19 considerations:
Covid Vaccine Required
License/Certification:
* CNA License (Required)
Work Location: One location
At Riverside, every day brings new and exciting challenges. You can expect an interesting environment where youre part of making sure our organization is running optimally and safely, helping keep the community healthy. We provide the kind of paid training and opportunities that long-term careers are built on and we recognize hard workers who strive to make a difference. You will be able to succeed in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as a team. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!
Summary:
The CNA assists with the routine care of their assigned patients under the direction of the professional nurse in a care partner dyad. CNA will participate in pulling and floating to any unit based on patient census and acuity to assist with routine care responsibilities. CNA is supervised by the Patient Care Services Manager, Unit Director, Nurse Manager, Team Leader, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and care partner RN.
*Experience/Education Requirements: *
* Completion of certified nurse aid course.
* Nursing student who can show the competence of a semester of clinical rotation.
*License or Certification Requirements: *
* CNA certificate registered with the State of Illinois or equivalent.
* Current CPR certification or obtainment within 6 months of hiring with subsequent recertification preferred.
Responsibilities:
* Ability to transfer patients within the hospital environment and assist with bed mobility.
* Answer call lights in a timely and courteous manner.
* Assist patients with all aspects of ADL's; observes the patient for physical and/or mental changes.
* Document chartable activities in computer.
* Feed patients and give them between meal fluids and nourishments.
* Follow and maintain isolation procedures, especially chemo precautions and radium implant precautions.
* Follow the interdisciplinary plan of care developed by the professional nurse.
* Make beds, occupied or unoccupied.
* Observes patient and the environment for fall hazards.
* Observes patients for suicidal ideation and follow suicide precautions.
* Obtain and record patient weights: standing, bedscale, and wheelchair
* Perform bladder scan perform downtime procedures.
* Promotes safety for patients and visitors.
* Provides emotional support for patients and visitors.
* Reports changes in patients' condition to the professional nurse.
* Restock supplies in patients' rooms.
* Take temperatures, pulse, respirations, B/P's, and measure and document I & O's.
* Utilize safety restraints and assistive devices appropriately.
* Walking rounds
Credentials:
Essential:
\* Certified Nursing Assistant
Education:
Essential:
\* HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
INDNHJ
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
* 401(k)
* 401(k) matching
* Dental insurance
* Employee discount
* Flexible schedule
* Flexible spending account
* Health insurance
* Health savings account
* Life insurance
* Referral program
* Retirement plan
* Tuition reimbursement
* Vision insurance
COVID-19 considerations:
Covid Vaccine Required
License/Certification:
* CNA License (Required)
Work Location: One location
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