Description

As part of The Orchards team, you can help our residents experience the best service and quality care during their nursing home, assisted living, rehab and independent living stays. 

Summary

Under the direction of the nursing staff, cares for residents while keeping them safe and comfortable during their activities of daily living by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Teamwork with the following and all other duties and responsibilities assigned.

• Provides care and services to residents as defined by individualized care plans. Care and services include, but are not limited to: ADL assistance, mobility assistance, positioning assistance and feeding assistance.
• Performs random rounds on each resident every two hours, starting upon arrival and finishing just prior to the end of the shift.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
• Participates in resident activity program.
• Documents care provided to residents using approved documentation method.
• Reports any change in resident condition to the charge nurse immediately.

Other Responsibilities:

• Assists with stocking supplies in clean utility rooms.
• Attend meetings and training sessions required for the position

Requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Certificate upon completion of an approved nurse's aide certification curriculum. Complete annual state mandated training requirements (Regular In-services as well as any external training).

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Certified Nurse Assistant certification. A Certified Nurse Assistant is required to work 8 hours and take 12 hours of training annually.

Other Skills and Abilities

Certified Nurse Assistant skills specific to geriatric residents are needed. May need additional skills with special-need geriatric residents such as those with dementia, Alzheimer's or those requiring skilled health care. Ability to use resident lift equipment.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk throughout the facility. The employee is regularly required to: 1) complete duties and provide therapeutic touch; 2) reach with hands and arms; and 3) balance to: use the telephone or computer, use medical equipment to assess resident vital signs, prepare residents to be lifted, operate the Sit to Stand Maxi/Hoyer lifts, lift or assist a resident out of a chair or bed, feed residents, serve meals, make beds and change linens, dress residents, fold laundry, turn door knobs, reposition chair alarms, assist or perform personal hygiene care for resident (brushing teeth, bathing or showering, drying after bath or shower), manipulate walkers and wheelchairs, assist residents when walking, store clean linens in closets, push residents in wheelchairs, and put away dishes, glasses, etc.

The employee is regularly required to stoop, kneel, or crouch

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to airborne viruses and bacteria, as well as blood-borne, fecal-borne, and other bodily pathogens carried by residents. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions while showering and bathing the residents. Showering or bathing residents may also present slip and fall hazards due to the wet conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes from bathroom odors and cleaners; toxic chemicals that may be used to clean bathrooms and kitchen areas; and outside weather conditions when taking the residents outdoors. The noise level in the work environment can be loud or when working at the nurse's station and in resident common areas where there are televisions and equipment operating, phones ringing, light to heavy traffic, and people talking. The noise level in the work environment drops to a quiet level during evening shifts and while in resident rooms throughout the day.

· The Orchards is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to providing a workplace free of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, veteran status, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.