St. Croix County·New Richmond, Wisconsin
This position provides basic care for residents, assisting with activities of daily living, offering emotional and social support, and ensuring overall physical comfort in a safe environment. Essential functions include performing personal hygiene tasks, assisting with mobility, accurately documenting care given, serving meals, and responding immediately to resident requests and emergencies.
This position provides basic care for residents/tenants to assure the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times within a safe environment; assists with activities of daily living, offers emotional and social support, and attends residents/tenants' overall physical comfort. This position is available for Full-Time, Part-Time, or On-Call.
The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Provides personal hygiene including bathing (tub, shower, bed bath), oral care, skin and nail care and hand washing.
Completes resident grooming including hair care, shaving, dressing and weighing. Encourages residents/tenants toward independent personal care.
Assists with toileting including bowel and bladder retraining and perinea care.
Performs and assists with mobility, transferring, ambulation, positioning and range of motion per the care plan.
Assists in orienting residents/tenants upon admission and throughout stay as needed.
Documents accurately all care given, including dietary intake and output, temperature, weight, blood pressure pulse and respiration, using approved abbreviations and descriptive terms.
Reports to nurse on units for written and verbal assignments which include daily use of care plans for assigned residents/tenants before initiating care.
Participates in the planning of resident care through shift reports and resident care staffing meetings when assigned.
Informs verbally and/or submit in writing any observations and changes in a resident for the licensed nurse to evaluate including dietary intake.
Serves residents/tenants their meals; motivates and assists them with intake of nourishment and fluids.
Answer all call signals and requests of residents/tenants immediately.
Encourages/assist residents/tenants in keeping their rooms clean and orderly; assists with making beds.
Maintains nursing unit in a clean and orderly manner.
Keeps all residents/tenants’ personal belongings and equipment clean.
Escorts residents/tenants to appointments and/or therapy departments as scheduled.
Participates in unit activity programs planned for residents/tenants as needed.
Attends and participates in unit nursing staff meetings and mandatory in-services.
Performs a total inventory of all resident’s possessions on admission, discharge or transfer.
Ensures all residents/tenants’ possessions are properly labeled.
Responds to resident emergency including bleeding, falls, seizures and performance of Heimlich maneuver.
Assists with post-mortem care as assigned.
Transports dietary carts and linen carts.
Other duties as assigned.
The physical and work environment characteristics described in this description 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 or as otherwise required by law. Employees needing reasonable accommodation should discuss the request with the employee’s supervisor.
Physical requirements
This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 75 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, frequently requires standing, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and repetitive motions and occasionally requires walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and reaching with hands and arms.
Work has standard vision requirements.
Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels.
Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data and observing general surroundings and activities.
Work requires exposure to bloodborne pathogens, infectious waste, disease, and medical conditions and may require specialized personal protective equipment.
Vaccinations and testing as required by local, state, or federal regulations and/or other regulating entities.
Market context
In Wisconsin, CNA openings are often driven by ongoing staffing needs in hospitals, long-term care, and other patient-care settings. These roles can be competitive because employers may prefer candidates with current state certification, though some will also consider applicants who have completed a 75-hour training program and are awaiting the state exam. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save research time, then confirm your certification status and availability before applying.
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