Certified Nursing Assistant-Transitional Living-PRN

Brooks Overview: 

For more than 50 years, the nonprofit Brooks Rehabilitation, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., has been a comprehensive system of care for physical rehabilitation.

Ranked as the No.

1 rehabilitation hospital in Florida and one of the top 20 in the nation on U.S.

News & World Report, Brooks operates two inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Jacksonville, Fla., and a Center for Inpatient Rehabilitation in partnership with Halifax Health (Daytona Beach).

Brooks also offers one of the region’s largest home healthcare agencies; more than 50 outpatient therapy clinics; the Brooks Rehabilitation Medical Group; two skilled nursing facilities; assisted living; memory care; and the Clinical Research Center, which specializes in advanced research to further the science of rehabilitation.

In addition, Brooks provides many low- or no-cost community programs and services to improve the quality of life for people living with physical disabilities. 

Location Overview: University Crossing

Position Summary:

A Certified Nursing Assistant is an employee who provides direct or indirect patient care under the supervision and direction of a nurse.

 This position will provide care to brain and spinal cord injured patients in our skilled nursing facility.

Job Responsibilities:


* Accepts assignment, direction, and delegation of tasks from the nurse(s) based on patient age, diagnosis, developmental needs, and plan of care 


* Answers patient call lights.


* Provides direct ADL care and assistance, including bathing, showering, dressing, feeding for patients who are very dependent; assists those who are partially independent.


* Toilets patients or provides bedpan-urinal for elimination; cleans patients after each episode of incontinence.


* Serves patient trays, feeds patients who are very dependent; assists those who are partially independent by setting up the tray.

Monitors patient for choking/aspiration.


* Provides oral hygiene and grooming to dependent patients.  Assists those who are partially independent.


* Turns and repositions patients.    


* Makes occupied and unoccupied beds.


* Assists with washing patient's personal clothing, as needed.


* Takes vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure), reports abnormalities to the nurse.


* Empties catheter bags; reports intake and output to the nurse.


* Provides condom catheter care.  


* Obtains specimens for laboratory tests.


* Performs, bladder scans.


* Interacts with patients and families; provides emotional support for same.


* Weighs patients


* Interacts with patients and families; provides emotional support for same.


* Transports patient to various therapies and other departments as required, transports or retrieves equipment, specimens, and other items as required, escorts patients to various doctor appointments.


* Records patient care as required (vital signs, I/O...