Certified Nursing Assistant Critical Care Unit

2 weeks ago

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States Covenant Health (Tennessee) Full time
Certified Nursing Assistant Critical Care Unit Job Description

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to join our Critical Care Unit team at Parkwest Medical Center. As a Certified Nursing Assistant, you will provide high-quality patient care and support to our critically ill patients.

Responsibilities:

  • Take and record vital signs, including 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 the Plan of Care.
  • Ambulate and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transport when necessary.
  • Attend to nutritional needs of patients, which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
  • Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patients, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed tables and bedside stands, straightening rooms, and other supportive care as needed.
  • Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins and record intake and output.
  • Assist in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen, and storing of supplies.
  • Provide general care, such as positioning, lifting, or turning patients; assisting in the use of bedpans, urinals, or commodes; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
  • Empty and clean ostomy bags, per procedure.
  • Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens as ordered.
  • Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' Plan of Care.
  • Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training), including correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating, and restocking.
  • Perform EKG (requires special training).
  • Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
  • Report significant changes in patients' conditions to RNs.
  • Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environments.
  • Employ all established infection control policies, including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures, and proper body mechanics in the performance of job.
  • Document/maintain patient records as appropriate.
  • Gather equipment for O2 setup, check O2 for connection and proper placement, and check for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
  • Ambulate patients with oxygen.
  • Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
  • Demonstrate ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
  • Follow policies, procedures, and safety standards, complete required education assignments annually, work toward achieving goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

We are seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant with a strong commitment to patient care and a passion for delivering exceptional service. The ideal candidate will have:

  • None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
  • Hospital experience preferred.
  • Medical terminology a plus.
  • Ability to operate a computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.
  • Understanding and knowledge of patient care that may be appropriately delegated to nursing assistants.

Licensure Requirement:

Must have and maintain Tennessee State CNA certification. CPR required.

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