CNA - Memory Care

Job DetailsJob Location

• Oak Bridge - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082JOB SUMMARY The primary purpose is to provide your assigned residents with routine nursing care in accordance with our established nursing care procedures, and as may be directed by your supervisors within the standard scope of practice for a Certified Nursing Assistant. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Provide nursing care according to established standards of care. 2. Participants in admission, transfer, and discharge functions. 3. Participants in the president’s plan of care. 4. Maintains and adheres to resident's plan of care. 5. Performs all dietary food service functions for the residents as per policies and procedures. 6. Performs duties in a safe and sanitary fashion. 7. Remains aware of proper usage, care, and dispensing of equipment and supplies. 8. Documents all necessary entries needed on daily flow sheets. 9. Maintains a low level of absence; Calls charge nurse in time to allow for staff replacement; Conforms to facility dress codes. 10. Attends and participates in scheduled in-services, meetings, lectures, and seminars. 11. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.QualificationsSkills,
• Abilities &
• Competencies:
• EDUCATION: Must possess a CNA certificate. Must possess a current/valid CPR certification.
• Physical
• REQUIREMENTS: 1. Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday. 2. Must be able to speak the English language is an understandable manner. 3. Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position. 4. Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to assure that the requirements of this position are fully met. 5. Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies. 6. Must be in good general health and demonstrate emotional stability. 7. Must be able to relate to work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotional upset, and at times, hostile people within the facility. 8. Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds. 9. Must be free of communicable diseases.
• USE
• OF
• Computer
• FOR
• Documentation
• OF
• MEDICAL
• RECORDS: To define the relationship between computerized medical records and printed medical records. Computerized medical records are maintained on the Electronic Chart System (ECS) for each resident. These records are updated to reflect the status of the resident. Staff have access to information contained within the system, using unique assigned access codes. Information contained on ECS is printed and placed on individual resident records on a regular basis. There are times when information is located on ECS but has not yet been printed. Staff have access to this information for review and may print information at intervals other than as needed. Information contained in ECS is considered part of the resident record and is maintained in a confidential manner.
• Electronic
• SIGNATURES: 1. Each employee utilizing the computer system will be issued a unique entry to the system. This code is to be kept confidential at al times. The code becomes the equivalent of a written signature. Under no circumstances is computer entry to be done under another person's code. Disciplinary action will result if violations occur. 2. A list of computer codes is maintained in the system's databases. Access to this list is limited to the
• System
• Supervisor and employees holding the following positions: Administrator and Director of Nursing. If a User feels that their code confidentiality has been compromised, they may request that the System Supervisor assign a new code. 3. Printouts and/or information viewed on the computer screen contain the date and time of the entry and the initials of the user who made the entry. These initials are comprised of a set of three letters, which are unique to the User who made the entry. The date, time, and initials will appear at the beginning of documentation and are associated with all subsequent entries, until either the date, time or initials change, at which point the new information would appear. 4. To ensure accuracy of documentation, the user is to review information on the screen prior to saving the information. If subsequent errors are noted, the Edit process is to be used to note errors. This process will save the original record, as well as the correction, indicating the date, time, and initials of the original entry, as well as the edited copy. 5. The person dictating, using the Edit/Add process, to indicate agreement, or to note any changes at the end of the entries will verify dictated information. The date, time and initials of the person reviewing the information will be noted electronically. PHYSICAL DEMANDS While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk hear, and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, and crouch. Employee must have excellent balance and be able to climb a ladder and walk around a roof. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds and be able to work at heights. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus as well as work on a computer for extended periods of time. The employee must be able to communicate verbally with other on the phone or in person.