Certified Nursing Assistant CWR
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Job Location:
Edison, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
1 hour ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Summary:
The Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct patient care under the direction of the RN professional to all assigned patients and maintains a safe patient area. He/she assumes responsibility and accountability for patient care as a team member in order to achieve established outcomes.
Essential Generic Job Functions (List in order of importance):
-Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing toileting oral hygiene incontinent care and bed making.
-Takes vital signs under the direction of the RN and documents accordingly and notifies the RN of the results.
-Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens including stool urine and sputum.
-Obtains and documents daily patient weights and observes and documents patients intake and output.
-Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly communicating with the RN immediately for any change in patients condition.
-Acts in the role of patient sitter when needed.
-Maintains a clean and safe nursing unit and patient room.
-Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e. age culture hearing and/or visually impaired etc.).
-This process includes communicating with the patient parent and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age educational literacy etc.).
-Contacts: Regular contact with Medical Center personnel patients and visitors.
The Certified Nursing Assistant provides direct patient care under the direction of the RN professional to all assigned patients and maintains a safe patient area. He/she assumes responsibility and accountability for patient care as a team member in order to achieve established outcomes.
Essential Generic Job Functions (List in order of importance):
-Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing toileting oral hygiene incontinent care and bed making.
-Takes vital signs under the direction of the RN and documents accordingly and notifies the RN of the results.
-Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens including stool urine and sputum.
-Obtains and documents daily patient weights and observes and documents patients intake and output.
-Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly communicating with the RN immediately for any change in patients condition.
-Acts in the role of patient sitter when needed.
-Maintains a clean and safe nursing unit and patient room.
-Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e. age culture hearing and/or visually impaired etc.).
-This process includes communicating with the patient parent and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age educational literacy etc.).
-Contacts: Regular contact with Medical Center personnel patients and visitors.
