Certified Nursing Assistant - Hourly

Turlock Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Come join our team and start making a difference!

• 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.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area and assist with loading/unloading residents from vehicles as necessary.
• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care (i.e., brushing teeth/dentures, oral hygiene, special mouth care, etc.).
• Assist residents with bath functions (i.e., bedbath, tub or shower bath, etc.) as directed.
• Assist residents with personal care.
• Keep residents dry (i.e., change gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Change bed linens.

Keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under the resident.
• Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bedpan/urinal, portable commode, etc.).
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Change dressings, bandages, binders, etc., as instructed.
• Provide eye and ear care (i.e., warm/cold compresses, eye/ear instillation, cleaning eyeglasses/hearing aides, etc.) as instructed.
• Answer resident calls promptly.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
• Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent pressure ulcers (bedsores).
• Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Turn bedfast residents at least every two (2) hours.
• Perform special treatment as instructed.
• Prepare residents for meals (i.e., take to bathroom, wash hands, comb hair, raise bed, position tables, place bibs, take to/from dining room, etc.).
• Serve food trays.

Assist with feeding as indicated (i.e., cutting foods, feeding, assist in dining room supervision, etc.).
• Keep residents' water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift) and...