Basic Care Transporter/CNA- Day Shift

## Overview **RESPONSIBILITIES:** - **Hardwiring Excellence. Responsible to know and adhere to evidence based leadership to achieve excellence.** - **Professional attitude**. **Possess team member abilities. Maintains a positive professional role throughout the facility and community.** - Familiarizes self with and adheres to all facility and department safety policies and procedures. - Promotes a culture of safety to improve employee safety. · **Safeguarding the privacy and security of Protected Health Information (PHI) in any form including electronic, written or oral**. - Transfer residents to and from the clinic, hospital and local providers as needed. - Assist resident in performing personal hygiene to include baths, showers, or sponge bathing. - Offer resident minimal assistance with ADL’s. Encourage resident to remain as independent as possible, while understanding some days may require added assistance. - Perform resident foot soaks and provides nail care. - Monitor resident hair care, provide hair shampoos as needed. - Encourage resident to perform oral hygiene, assists as needed. - Monitor resident bowel/bladder control and changing of protective garments, assist as needed. - Monitor resident daily clothing attire and changing of soiled clothing. Intervene as needed for cleanliness and appropriateness of dress. - Inspect resident room for soiled laundry, perishables food items and unnecessary clutter. Maintain environment as need for sanitary and safety measures. - Answer signal lights in a timely manner. - Obtain weights and vital signs (Blood pressure, Temperature, pulse, respiration, and oxygen saturation) as assigned and needed and chart appropriately. - Complete nightly and weekly duties as assigned on worksheet. - Provides resident admission orientation and completes admission checklist. - Carry out emergency procedures and participates in practice drills. - Assists resident with packing belongings for discharge, transfer or appointments. - Assist in dining room with carrying plates. Assist in opening containers, cutting meat or as needed. - Assist as needed with death procedures. - Gives necessary information to Charge Nurse regarding residents. - Reports all resident concerns or problems to Charge Nurse. - Reports facility problems to appropriate department. - Sorts, washes, dries, folds and/or irons personal clothing. - Spot cleans to remove heavy stains from personal clothing. - Keeps work area and washing machines clean. - Cleans designated areas as assigned. - Vacuuming and general cleaning of assigned areas. - Maintain the security of company-assigned devices by adhering to IT security protocols, including timely installation of updates, use of strong passwords, and compliance with all cybersecurity policies. - All other duties as assigned. **TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:** Basic care environment that is staffed 24 hour a day with licensed personal. Daily contact with physicians, staff, geriatric residents, and the community. **TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS:** Requires full range of body motion, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 50 pounds. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Requires working under stressful conditions or irregular hours. Requires some exposure to communicable diseases, bodily fluids, hazardous material, and other conditions common to a health care environment. ## Description Viewed as a personal care aide. In such a capacity to assists resident with Activities of Daily Living. Performs laundry, housekeeping duties, and assists in the dining room on a daily basis. The job is a multifaceted position with many elements aside from nursing. ## Requirements - Must possess a positive feeling for the elderly and be able to work well with them. - Good communication skills. - Certified Nursing Assistant certification. - Must have a current ND driver’s…