Certified Nurse Assistant

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will be a cornerstone of patient care, directly contributing to comfort, safety, and recovery by providing essential support under RN direction.Every day, you will help deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and actively contribute to the patient's plan of care as a vital member of our interdisciplinary team, upholding the highest standards of conduct and patient well-being.To be successful in this role, you will possess a dedicated spirit of service, strong communication skills, a meticulous approach to patient support, and an unwavering commitment to our mission of dignified, high-quality healthcare.

• Provides safe resident transfers from bed, wheelchair, chairs or shower chairs utilizing transfer belts or mechanical lifts, thereby, resulting in no injuries to resident or self due to poor body mechanics.
• Report to the Licensed Nurse any changes noted in assigned residents, i.e.: skin conditions, urinary or bowel changes, vital sign abnormalities, oral intake changes, mobility changes, behavioral and/or cognitive changes, and reports to the License Nurse with 95-98% accuracy and timeliness.
• Assures that resident's right to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property and civil rights, including the right to wage complaints daily by reporting immediately any suspected or observed incidents of resident abuse per our facility policy and procedures.
• Performs timely and accurate documentation by writing legibly at all times to document the care provided to the patient according to establish guidelines.
• Utilizes the electronic medical record to document the delivery of care to the patient. Documentation will be completed with 95-98% accuracy and timeliness.
• Completion of audits 100% of the time.

Job Requirements

Required

• On (1) year SNF/LTC care of the aged, acutely ill, chronically ill and patients in need of restorative care.
• Graduate from an accredited nursing assistant program.
• Certified Nursing Assistant: CA.
• Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.

 

Where You’ll Work

Bruceville Terrace has been providing quality, compassionate care since 1989. Licensed as the 171-bed sub-acute skilled nursing facility of Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, Bruceville Terrace offers care for the elderly, as well as those requiring extended recoveries. 

Bruceville Terrace provides skilled nursing, rehabilitative and complex medical services to our patients and residents using an interdisciplinary team approach. Over half of the facility is dedicated to skilled nursing/convalescent care, while the remaining beds are committed to meet the medical and rehabilitative needs of the short-term patient after a stay at the acute care hospital. Learn more here at http://www.methodistsacramento.org/.

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