THE PURPOSE OF YOUR JOB POSITION

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care in accordance with established nursing care procedures, standards of practice and as may be directed by your supervisors.

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• Nursing Care Functions

1. Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, kiosks, etc., in an informative and descriptive manner.

2. Immediately report all accidents and incidents to your immediate supervisor that you have observed on the shift that they occur, but no later than the end of your scheduled shift.

3. Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Charge/Staff Nurse as soon as practical.

4. Receive the nursing report upon reporting on/off duty and maintain other records as directed.

5. Perform and/or assist resident with all hygienic and grooming functions,

including dental and mouth care, bathing, dressing, shaving, bowel and bladder functions.

6. Change bed linens and make beds.

7. Report character of stools and collect specimens as instructed (i.e., urine,

sputum, stools, etc.).

8. Check residents routinely to assure that their personal care needs are being met per the plan of care.

9. Lift, turn, move, position, and transport residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.

10. Assist in transporting residents to/from appointments, activities and social

programs, etc., as necessary, and accompany residents, as assigned, to scheduled appointments outside facility.

11. Assist residents to walk with or without self-help devices, as instructed, and assist with rehabilitative care, as directed and per the plan of care.

12. Provide post-mortem care as instructed.

13. Observe and report to the Nurse in Charge, the presence of reddened areas and skin breakdown to prevent decubitus ulcers.

14. Provide daily indwelling catheter care and daily perineal care.

15. Provide daily Range of Motion Exercises.

16. Turn bedfast residents at least every two (2) hours or as directed by the plan of care.

• Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Functions

1. Prepare the resident's room for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).

2. Participate in admission, transfer and discharge functions pursuant to Facility policy and supervisory instructions.

• Food Service Functions

1. Prepare residents for meals (i.e., take to bathroom, wash hands, comb hair, raise bed, position tables, place clothing protectors, take to/from dining room, etc.).

2. Serve food trays. Assist with feeding as indicated (i.e., cutting foods, feeding, assist in dining room supervision, etc.).

3. Record the residents food/fluid intake. Report changes in the resident's eating habits to the Nurse in Charge.

4. Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident's hands, face, clothing, take to bathroom, brush teeth, clean dentures, etc.).

5. Check rooms for food articles (i.e., food in proper container, unauthorized food items, etc.).

• Requirments

1. Attend and participate in scheduled training and educational classes as required.

2. Attend and participate in scheduled orientation programs and activities.

3. Wear name tag on your clean scrub uniform as required along with no artificial nails.

EXPERIENCE

Must be a licensed Certified Nurse Aide in accordance with laws of this state.

PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONAL REQUIREMENTS