Alsa cna

As a Best of Hartford organization, a career at Duncaster in more than just a place to work. Here, you can fulfill your passion for helping others and become part of something meaningful that pays you back in inspiring, heartfelt ways you may have never experienced.

Duncaster offers residents a plan for life with independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services all on a beautiful campus-like setting. Our residents share a bond of mutual respect with our staff that builds memorable and lasting relationships.

Overview

Under the supervision of a licensed nurse, the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) provides daily personal care, assists with meals, housekeeping, and recreational activities, and supports residents’ psychosocial and hygiene needs. In the Dogwood Memory Care neighborhood, the CNA works collaboratively with the household team to support dining, programming, and the upkeep of residents’ living spaces, ensuring a safe, clean, and engaging environment.

• Essential Functions
• Provides personal hygiene (bath, shower, shampoo, assistance with elimination needs, dressing, or other personal care to include but not limited to shaving and fingernail clipping and filing) and takes vital signs as directed by the plan of care; reports any observations or change of condition to charge nurse.
• Follows residents' plan of care and respect residents' choices. Reviews the resident's plan of care with the charge nurse with any new assignment, changes or when additional explanation or teaching is needed. Communicates all changes in resident care needs with Charge Nurse.
• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, person-centered care, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout.
• Provides physical comfort and a safe environment. Follows all safety and security policies and procedures; performs all tasks to ensure resident and personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property.
• Performs safe transfers and assists with ambulation safety using assistive devices.
• Accurately weighs residents as assigned.
• Promptly and courteously answer residents’ requests for assistance and responds to “call for aid” as directed.
• Assists with dining room duties, including serving the residents their meals, monitoring the dining room, delivering trays and assisting with filling out menus and submitting them to dining services.
• Prepares residents for appointments and assists with transportation within the community; accompany to outside appointments as needed.