Nursing Assistant - NA

Nursing Assistant Class

The primary purpose of your job position as a full-time staff member is to acquire the knowledge, skills, and certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant by participation in the facility's planned educational program consisting of classroom instructions, clinical practice, and on-the-job, supervised training, and to perform certain services for which you have been trained and found to be competent during the training period.

Essential Duties • Become familiar with the facility's administrative structure as introduced in the pre-training orientation session.

• Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary.

• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.

• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.

• Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical.

• Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.

• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility's information system.

• Perform only those nursing care procedures that you have been trained to do.

• Ensure that the resident's room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).

• Greet residents and escort them to their room.

• Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.

• Inventory and mark the resident's personal possessions as instructed.

• Store resident's clothing.

• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.

• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.

• Assist with loading/unloading residents' to/from vehicles as necessary.

• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.

• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.

• Make beds as instructed.

• Put extra covers on beds as requested.

• Measure and record temperatures, pulses, and respirations (TPRs) of residents, as instructed.

Weigh and measure residents as instructed.

• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.

• Answer resident calls promptly.

• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.

• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).

• Record the resident's food/fluid intake.

Report changes in the resident's eating habits to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.

• Keep residents...