Job Description
Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing the Ralph H. Johnson VAMC with Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs) . The CNAs are expected to do the following:
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs requirements with minimal monitoring by a Registered Nurse (RN) providing basic, appropriate, effective interventions to individual patient needs according to established facility policies, safety standards and procedures within Med/Surg & Inpatient Psych units.
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs requirements with minimal monitoring by a Registered Nurse (RN) provides basic, appropriate, effective interventions to individual patient needs according to established facility policies, safety standards and procedures.
- CNA refers to the professional RN when deviations and problems not covered in the assignment occur
- Performs a range of personal nursing care which includes feeding, walking, lifting, turning patients, providing related hygiene care to patients using specialized equipment receiving oxygen or suction therapy.
- Performs a range of diagnostic support duties which include taking, recording, and reporting to the nurse deviations in vital signs and changes in patients' condition such as diabetic, uremic coma, insulin shock, gastro-intestinal hemorrhage and reporting them to the nurse or doctor.
- Assists the doctor in a variety of diagnostic examinations such as lumbar punctures, liver biopsy, bone marrow examinations and emergency procedures.
- Assembles necessary equipment and positions patients, collects, labels and transports specimens to the laboratory.
- Checks patients frequently during and following procedures for changes in patient's condition.
- Escorts patients to and from diagnostic studies.
- Cleans and cares for equipment used in oxygen and suction therapy, frame beds and reports equipment in need of repair.
- Performs a range of treatment procedures that include changing simple dressings. Cares for patients with infection, communicable diseases, and those in infection isolation.
- Cares for patients receiving oxygen via cannula or mask as well as venti mask, patients with chest therapy and postural drainage.
- Cares for patients with condom catheters as well as indwelling Foley catheters.
- Administers basic life support measures.
- Verbally provides information to the nurse for inclusion in the Nursing Care Plans.
- Documents vital signs. Enters information about the patients' condition in the patients' chart. Assists with completion of patients' admission history.
- Promotes physical independence by supervising patents in self-care activities including eating, dressing, application of prosthetic devices and braces.
- Instruct patients on pre- and post-operative care based on general information provided by a doctor or nurse.
- Conduct inventories upon admissions and as needed to include, but not limited to, contraband search, ongoing evaluations of the environment of care
- Provide 1:1 care as a Patient Safety Partner as needed on and off the unit.
- Accompany and/or transport patients to appointments/procedures as necessary. Performs EKGs as requested.
- Obtains and records temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respirations, pulse oximetry, height, weight, I&O's, and blood sugar for all patients according to providers orders and reporting all abnormalities immediately to RN.
- Recognizes potentially hazardous conditions on the unit, observing, managing, engaging, and documenting disturbed behaviors while engaging those behaviors and reporting to the Registered Nurse
Requirements
- Proof of completion of a CNA accredited program
- Valid license
- Valid BLS
- at least 3 years of relevant experience
Salary Description
$17.75/hr to $23.50/hr
Job Tags
Immediate start,