Certified Nursing Assistant
13 days ago
Charlotte
Job Description Overview Join a team of passionate and caring clinicians who make a difference in people's lives. Our nursing group focuses on compassion and meeting the needs of our clients in a variety of settings such as Home Health, Hospice, Residential and Private Duty. If your passion is outstanding patient care coupled with a desire to help others live their best life, then come work for us. Apply today! Responsibilities • Assists nurses by performing various basic care activities related to services essential to caring for the personal needs and comfort of patient, • Dresses, grooms, bathes, feeds, takes and records vital signs of patients, • Answers call lights, assists in toileting, oral care, nail care, catheter care, assists patients in wheel chairs, transports, turns bedridden patients, reports patient changes, and takes out trash, • Requires certification as a Nurse Assistant; functions may not exceed Standards of Practice as accorded by certification, • Provides simple or uncomplicated patient care, • Cleans room and changes bed linen, • Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration rate, • Gives medication as directed by Physician or Nurse and makes notation of amount and time given, • Other duties as assigned Qualifications • Minimum age requirements is 18 years, • Valid driver's license, with satisfactory driving record, as defined by agency policy, • Certification, if required by state licensure as a CNA or Home Health Care Aide in the state in which the aide is to provide care, • Completion of a recognized home care aide training program or 6 months of recent experience as an aide, • Must be able to utilize proper body mechanics while lifting and may be expected to lift up 75 lbs.; must be able to sit, stand, and walk for periods of time and bend, stoop, push, pull, and reach