Certified Nursing Assistant; CNA - Inpatient

Overview

We are hiring a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Inpatient for one of our clients in Charleston, SC
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Job Description

NURSING ASSISTANTS (6 FTE)

Certified Nurse Assistant - Inpatient (CNA). Contractor will ensure that the Contract Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs requirements with minimal monitoring by a Registered Nurse (RN) providing basic, appropriate, effective interventions to individual patient needs according to established facility policies, safety standards and procedures within Med/Surg & Inpatient Psych units. The contract CNA refers to the professional RN when deviations and problems not covered in the assignment occur.

The contract CNA anticipates the needs of professional staff and works with them as a team member.

• Contractor will ensure that Contract Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs requirements with minimal monitoring by a Registered Nurse (RN) and provides basic, appropriate, effective interventions to individual patient needs according to established facility policies, safety standards and procedures.
• The contract CNA refers to the professional RN when deviations and problems not covered in the assignment occur.
• The contract CNA anticipates the needs of professional staff and works with them as a team member.
• Agency nurses assigned to Charleston VA Inpatient Psych unit can expect to work 12-hour shifts, with alternating weekend shifts preferred.
• Performs a range of personal nursing care including feeding, walking, lifting, turning patients, and providing related hygiene care to patients using specialized equipment receiving oxygen or suction therapy.
• Performs a range of diagnostic support duties including taking, recording, and reporting to the nurse deviations in vital signs and changes in patients' condition and reporting them to the nurse or doctor.
• Assists the doctor in a variety of diagnostic examinations and emergency procedures.
• Assembles necessary equipment, positions patients, collects, labels and transports specimens to the laboratory.
• Checks patients frequently during and after procedures for changes in condition.
• Escorts patients to and from diagnostic studies.
• Cleans and cares for equipment used in oxygen and suction therapy, frame beds and reports equipment in need of repair.
• Performs a range of treatment procedures including changing simple dressings.
• Cares for patients with infection, communicable diseases, and those in infection isolation.
• Cares for patients receiving oxygen via cannula or mask, venti-mask, chest therapy and postural drainage.
• Cares for patients with condom catheters as well as indwelling Foley catheters.
• Administers basic life support measures.
• Verbally provides information to the nurse for inclusion in Nursing Care Plans.
• Documents vital signs and enters information about the patient’s condition in the patient chart.
• Assists with completion of patients’ admission history.
• Promotes physical independence by supervising patients in self-care activities including eating, dressing, and use of prosthetic devices and braces.
• Instruct patients on pre- and post-operative care based on general information provided by a doctor or nurse.
• Conduct inventories upon admissions and as needed to include contraband search and ongoing evaluations of the environment of care.
• Provide 1:1 care as a Patient Safety Partner as needed on and off the unit.
• Accompany and/or transport patients to appointments/procedures as necessary.
• Performs EKGs as requested.
• Obtains and records temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respirations, pulse oximetry, height, weight, I&O’s, and blood sugar for all patients, reporting abnormalities immediately to the RN.
• Recognizes potentially hazardous conditions on the unit and reports to the Registered Nurse.
• May be required to work with COVID-19 positive patients and Patients Under Investigation (PUI).

• CPR
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  All CNAs must have CPR certification from an American Heart Association vendor and be able to demonstrate competency in CPR and have current BLS certification.
• Certification:
  Current CNA certification from any U.S. state (United States).
• Experience:
  
  Minimum of two years direct patient care in the last three…