FUNCTION

Cares for residents under the direction and supervision of a registered nurse or a licensed practical/vocational nurse.

QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs
• Freedom from use of and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
• Anyone found guilty by a court of law of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating individuals in health care related setting are ineligible for employment in the position. Education and/or Experience: Minimum High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Certificates, Licensees, Registrations: Graduate of a state approved nursing assistant training program and passed a state approved competency examination (written and skills) within 120 days of employment; name entered into state nurse aide registry.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Must be able to express self adequately in written and oral communication and to communicate effectively in an interdisciplinary care setting with residents, families and staff members.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add and subtract three digit numbers; calculate percentage of whole; measure in cubic centimeters (cc’s); measure in feet and inches. Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, length and height.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

N/A

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each key function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the key functions.
Care and Services:
• Take and records vital signs
• Measures and records height and weight
• Calculates and records weight gain or loss
• Calculate and records fluid intake and output
• Cares for the resident’s environment
• Recognizes abnormal changes in body functioning and importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor
• Cares for residents when death is imminent
• Makes routine rounds on each assigned resident every two hours
• Bathes residents
• Assist with grooming, including mouth care
• Dresses residents
• Toilet residents
• Assist with eating and hydration
• Use proper feeding techniques
• Calculates and records percentage of meal eaten
• Observe resident’s skin when giving care and reports changes to license nurse
• Provides skin care
• Transfer, position and turns residents
• Meets residents’ mental health and social service needs
• Modifies own behavior in response to resident’s behaviors
• Allows residents to make personal choices
• Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with the residents’ dignity.
• Uses the residents’ families as a source of emotional support.
• Contributes to the resident’s assessment (MDS/CAA) and the plan of care.
• Provides nursing rehabilitation/restorative nursing services:
- Promote resident’s ability to adopt and adjust to living as independently as possible
- Trains the resident in self-care according to the resident’s abilities
- Trains the resident in the use of assistive devices for transferring, walking and
mobility.
Dressing and grooming, eating and swallowing
- Maintains range of motion; proper turning and positioning in bed and chair
- Provides bladder and bowel retraining
- Instructs the resident on the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices
- Incorporates training and skill practice activities which include repetition, physical or verbal cueing and task segmentation
• Care for residents with dementia:
- Knows how to respond to residents’ behaviors
- Allows residents to make personal choices
- Provides and reinforces other behavior consistent with residents’ dignity
- Uses the residents’ families as a source of emotional support
- Demonstrates a basic understanding of behavior and functional symptoms associated with dementia by providing interventions and treatments to help reduce these symptoms
- Uses modificati