Certified Nurse Assistant - CNA24-06317 - 4LOCS

Title: Certified Nurse Assistant
Location: North Bergen, NJ
Duration: 13 weeks of contract (extendable)
Shift: 08 hrs./day & 40 hrs./ week (02:45 pm- 11:15 pm / 10:45 PM - 7:15 AM )
Job Type: Contract

Education:

• High school diploma or general education diploma (GED).
• BLS certification.
• State License as CNA

Responsibilities:

• 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 patient’s intake and output.
• Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly, communicating with the RN immediately for any change in patient’s 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.).

Skill: CNA: 1 year (Acute Care)