Covenant Health, specifically Cumberland Medical Center, is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to provide direct patient care and assist registered nurses in performing tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader.
Requirements
- CNA Licensure from the State of Tennessee is required upon hire.
- CPR required.
- Must be able to operate computer
- Must be able to read with comprehension
- Must be able to write legibly
- Must be able to perform basic arithmetic computation.
- Must have understanding and knowledge of patient care which may be appropriately delegated to nursing assistants.
Responsibilities
- Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
- Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
- Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
- Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,
- Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
- Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
- Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
Other
- Hospital experience preferred.
- Medical terminology a plus.
- possess excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
- Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
