Registered Nursing Assistant

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Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR136580
• Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals,  etc., as necessary.  
• 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.  
• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.  
• 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 residents to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.  
• Make residents comfortable.  
• 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.  
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm  environment throughout the unit and shift.  
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and  correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.  
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.  
• 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’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of  the resident.  
• Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.).  
• Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.  
• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed  by your supervisors.  
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.  
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing  services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.  
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.  
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in  accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.  
• Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing  and undressing as necessary).  
• Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).  
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