Certified Nursing Assistant - WR- WSP

Certified Nursing Assistant
WA State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, WA
Monthly Salary Range: $4,522 - $6,046
Shift: Friday - Tuesday 2155 - 0625

This CNA supports the Department’s mission to improve public safety by delivering and leading others in the delivery of nursing services that promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjusting to various health conditions. This position supports the mission of the Health Services Division by providing necessary, comprehensive, quality health services and to promote wellness in preparation for return to the community.

Our mission is to provide medically necessary health care that promotes wellness.

We are a team of committed professionals supporting successful re-entry through a patient-focused integrated system of care.

• As a team of committed professionals, we share the following values:
• We are each responsible for contributing to the delivery of health care.
• All individuals deserve to be treated with compassion and respect.
• Patient education is a path to good health.
• Evidence-based practices are the essentials of quality care.
• Successful re-entry includes linking patients with health care providers; and,
• Our customers include both internal and external partners, comprehensive, quality health services and promoting patient wellness.

Application assessment will be ongoing, and the hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It is to the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible.

This recruitment could be used to fill multiple permanent or non-permanent positions.

• Under the direct or indirect supervision of a Registered Nurse, or Licensed Practical Nurse, deliver care to promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjustment to various health conditions. Provide health service to individual patients, groups of patients, staff employed at the correctional facility, and the public ist nursing process.
• Assist patients with personal care and activities of daily living such as bathing, personal hygiene, grooming, dressing, eating, positioning, transferring and ambulating. Perform passive and active range of motion.
• Assist the medical practitioner and physicians with examinations and provide assistance when necessary, including, but not limited to, paperwork and handling instruments needed for examination.
• Assist the laboratory with urine dip sticks, blood sugar testing, and transport.
• Assist with inpatient admissions and discharges.
• Ensure patient rooms are clean and free of unsafe conditions. Conduct inventory and daily checks of assigned areas to support quality improvement.
• Meet patient’s personal hygiene and comfort needs, to ensure promotion and maintenance of musculoskeletal, integumentary, genitourinary, GI systems integrity in inpatient unit.
• Practice infection control techniques and report any discrepancies to licensed personnel through the chain of command.
• Perform basic nursing procedures such as taking temperatures, pulses, respiration, and blood pressure.
• Apply barrier cream and lotions to intact skin; perform noninvasive lab procedures and report results to a Registered Nurse.
• Apply external appliances such as braces, Uros heaths, hearing aids and perform active, passive range of motion and make beds.
• Answer call light, determine the nature of the problem and respond within the scope of training and to report appropriate chain of command.

Use tools, techniques, physical and cognitive skills and abilities to practice as a Nursing Assistant safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice as defined by State Law and Administrative Code to ensure patient care provided is safe, effective, efficient and clinically appropriate.

• Monitor and collect specific data, as directed, about health status, clinical condition, or situation of individuals, families, groups and communities by interview, observation, inspection, and examination.
• Report the results of monitoring and data collection to the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or Medical Practitioner.

Assist the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or…