CNA Job Summary:
Assists residents with activities of daily living, providing nursing care and related services as is necessary to meet the personal needs and comfort of the residents, and assist in maintenance of a safe, clean environment under the direction of a licensed nurse.

CNA Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide for personal hygiene care, which may include, complete or partial bath, back care, oral hygiene, combing hair, shaving, toileting, dressing resident, changing bed linen, and other general care as is necessary.
• Performs routine treatment procedures including, application of appliances for heat/cold-routine skin care, and other minor skin treatments.
• Takes and/or records temperature, pulse, respiration, height, weight, and intake/output. Maintains elimination, restraint, and appetite records. Reports variations from the normal.
• Prepares residents for meals, serves and assist with meals, provides feeding assistance when necessary.
• Promptly answers resident call bells, anticipates resident needs, and makes rounds to assigned residents.
• Assists residents with handling and care of clothing and other personal property including dentures, glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, and prosthetic devices.
• Transports resident to and from various units and other areas of the Facility.
• Regularly provides for residents activities and comfort, according to residents tolerance levels for example; up with assistance, ambulation, positioning.
• Assists staff nurses in treatment procedures and collection of specimens.
• Participates in and contributes to resident care plans.
• Reports any changes observed in condition or behavior of residents and/or any unusual incidents.
• Participates in both diversion and planned activities.
• Ensures that the bedside articles and resident call bell are always within reach and available for use.
• Provides for resident privacy at all times, knocking before entering room, closing room doors, pulling cubicle curtains before providing care.
• Establishes and maintains interpersonal relationships with residents assuring confidentiality of resident information.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and clean environment by cleaning and straightening of rooms, reporting equipment that is out of order and other problems to Nurse Manager or nurse in charge and appropriate handling of clean and dirty linens, take soiled linens, personal laundry and trash to designated areas.
• Attends in-service education programs as assigned/required.
• Ability to document care using computer system.
• Provides direct restorative care. Specific care will include: participate with the Rise and Shine morning program, complete passive and active ROM to bilateral upper and lower extremities, ambulation, bed mobility, communications, transfers, positioning techniques, splints, ADL training, restorative dining and assistive feeding devices/adaptive equipment.

*CNA Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• May accompany resident on appointments outside of the facility.
• All other duties as assigned.

CNA Working Conditions:
Works in a clean, well-heated, well-lighted, and well-ventilated building. Prolonged standing and walking, repeated bending, squatting, stooping, exposure to all resident elements including infection, odors and to peculiarities in behavior and reactions of the elderly, assists with emergencies and in restraining violent or combative residents.

CNA Qualifications Necessary to Perform Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Completion of state approved Nurse Aide training course.
• Must be deemed competent to be placed on the Pennsylvania Nurse Aide registry within four months from date of hire.
• Sense of responsibility, moral integrity, and common sense.
• Sincere desire to work with elderly.
• Patience and compassion essential.
• Pleasant, cheerful, tactful, courteous when handling residents and/or families.
• Willingness to cooperate with other personnel and work as an effective team.
• Ability to treat patient information confidentially.
• Must be able to lift, turn, and reposition residents both alone and with assistance with and without the use of mechanical devices.
• Must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position, including lifting residents with help.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position without posing a direct threat of harm to themselves, others or property.
• Must adhere to Wesbury personnel policies and practices including, but not limited to, the attendance requirements.

Supervision Received:
Under the supervision of the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Director of Nursing following established procedures.

Benefits:

• Wesbury offers a competitive wage based on experience.
• Shift differential for evening and night shifts.
• 403b retirement fund with ER contribution.
• Vacation, sick, and holiday pay.