NA/CNA, Nursing Floats

Job Summary:

The C.N.A. acts as a vital member of the patient care delivery team, performing delegated nursing duties, environmental service duties and food service duties to enhance the satisfaction level of the hospitalized patient.

• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures under direction of a licensed nurse.
• Collects basic health data as directed by a licensed nurse.
• Assists patients with activities of daily care (e.g. personal hygiene, toileting, nutrition, ambulation, etc).
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.)
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent patient according to established standards.
• Maintains clean and safe work environment (identifies and/or removes safety hazards).
• Provides timely and thorough information on assigned patients to supervising licensed nurse and other health care team members.
• Participates in learning for colleagues and self (attends educational programs, in-services, assist with orientation of new staff).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents). 
• Assists patients with activities of daily living, including bathing, shampooing, shaving, brushing teeth, etc.
• Obtains heights and weights of assigned patients per care plan.
• Assists patients with ambulation using appropriate technique (i.e. gait belt).
• Assists patients with turning in bed and transferring from bed to stretcher or chair using appropriate technique (i.e. transfer mattress).
• Provides incontinent care to patients.
• Assists patients with eating and drinking per care plan.
• Maintains and documents fluid intake, output measurements and vital signs on patients per care plan.
• Assists with obtaining late trays as needed.
• Maintains infection control precautions per Infection Control Policy.