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Certified Nursing Assistant

USA Jobs, Batavia, New York, United States, 14020

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Certified Nursing Assistant

We are seeking a dedicated and certified professional to join our healthcare team. The ideal candidate will hold a New York State Certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant and will perform duties under direct clinical supervision. Responsibilities include changing simple dressings, administering enemas, douches, and irrigations as directed, applying abdominal "T" binders, hot water bottles, aqua "K" pads, ice bags, coolers, and hot and cold compresses to patients as directed, assisting patients in collecting urine and stool specimens, observing and recording patients' quantitative food and fluid intake and waste output, taking temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate, giving therapeutic baths such as sitz and fever sponge baths, measuring and recording height and weight, inspecting functioning oxygen therapy equipment including tents, masks, and cannulae to ensure appropriate functioning, recognizing and reporting abnormal signs and symptoms of common diseases and conditions to clinical staff, applying splints, braces, slings, and other self-help devices, operating a variety of specialized patient monitoring and treatment devices, attending to patients' hygiene and daily living needs to maintain an atmosphere conducive to patient comfort and treatment, including bathing, dressing, brushing teeth, and trimming nails, collecting and carrying patients' laundry and dry cleaning and delivering objects to appropriate locations in the healthcare facility, receiving patients' belongings and transporting objects to safe storage, keeping appropriate records, feeding patients requiring assistance, moving, positioning, lifting, and transporting patients using a variety of lifts and other aids as directed by clinical staff to ensure comfort, prepare for treatment, and prevent contractures, providing bedpans and urinals to patients requiring assistance and attending to incontinent patients, engaging with patients by talking and listening to encourage cooperation and participation in treatment activities, and may transport patients and supplies on occasion. May perform limited housekeeping and cleaning duties related to direct patient care to ensure treatment and patient areas are clean, sanitary, orderly, and properly supplied. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, uniform service member status, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. This practice extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms and conditions of employment.