HHA (59192)

POSITION SUMMARY The HHA is responsible to provide each of your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the residents individual service plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors. As a HHA you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your designed duties ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (\*CF indicates Critical Function) Administrative Functions: - Documents all cares provided in EMR - Reports all changes in the residents condition to the LPN - Agrees not to disclose assigned user ID code and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator - Agrees not to disclose residents protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure - Reports any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facilitys information system Personnel: - Performs all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors (\* CF) - Cooperated with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents (\*CF) - Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift - Meets with nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services - Reports all complaints and grievances made by the resident (\*CF) - Reports occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor - Reports known or suspected incidents of fraud to the Administrator/Corporate Compliance Officer - Ensures that departmental computer workstations left unattended are property logged off or the password protected automatic screen-saver activates within established facility policy guidelines Personal Nursing Care Functions: - Participates in and receive the nursing report for duty (\*CF) - Assists resident with all grooming tasks each shift, including but not limited to, oral/dental care, bathing, dressing, hair care, shaving, nail care - Assists resident with bowel and bladder functions and any incontinence care, ensuring residents are dry (\*CF) - Assists in transporting residents to/from appointments, activity and social programs, etc., as necessary - Assists with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, etc. as per ISP, using proper body mechanics. (\*CF) - Assists residents to walk with or without self-help devices as instructed - Weighs and measures residents as instructed (\*CF) - Answers residents calls as promptly as feasible, ensuring that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently (\*CF) - Assist with the care of a dying resident and provide post-mortem care as instructed (\*CP) - Making and changing beds Food Service Functions: - Prepares residents for meals (i,e., take to bathroom, wash hands, comb hair, raise beds, position tables, place clothing protectors or napkins, take to/from dining room, etc.) (\*CF) - Serves food trays. Assists with feeding as indicated (i.e., cutting foods, feeding, assist in dining room supervision, etc.) (\*CF) - Assists residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problems of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.) - Assists with between meal and bedtime snacks (\*CF) as requested - Performs after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean residents hands, face, clothing, take to bathroom, brush teeth, clean dentures, etc.) - Checks rooms for food articles (i.e., food in proper container, unauthorized food items, etc.) Staff Development: -…