Cert Nursing Asst PRN in Price, UT at Castleview Hospital
Posted on: 27 Jan 2021
Price, UT
Job Description
Job Description
Castleview Hospital
Certified Nursing Assistants generally work directly under the supervision of an RN, or registered nurse. Often, the CNA has more direct contact with the individual patients than doctors, specialists, or other nurses. This is due to the fact that the CNA is responsible for direct patient care and personal needs.Meals: Patient feeding responsibilities. Some patients will require direct feeding, while others may just need their meal tray brought to them and set up.
Oral care, nail care, and basic hygiene.
Bathing and dressing of patient. Bathing may take place in the form of a bed bath, shower, or tub.
Toileting of patients. Often patients will need help with moving on and off of the facilities. Some patients may need help with a bed pan.
Catheter care. Changing of catheter bags and charting amounts.
Ambulation assistance. Some patients need help getting in and out of beds, wheelchairs, bathtubs, etc.
Vital signs: Blood pressure, pulse, and temperature monitoring.
Answering call lights.
Turning of bedridden patients. This is done to take the weight off of pressure points and prevent bedsores from occurring.
Changing bed clothes and collecting soiled laundry.
Light cleaning and organizing of patients room or area.
Relaying and charting requested information. This may include moods, vital signs, meal consumption, liquid intake, and daily BM and urine amounts.
Relaying information to the next CNA on shift, or to the nurses in charge.
Recreational activities, such as assisting with a walk outdoors or delivering reading material to patients.
Post mortem care.
Job Requirements
Utah CNA certificate is required within 30 days of hire. As pertinent to the position, must be able to use computer, telephone, calculator and adapt to new technology as it becomes available and necessary for the job. Must have BLS within 30 days of hire.
LifePoint Health is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color, race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, veterans status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
LifePoint Health, Inc.
Brentwood, TN
Across our network and at our Health Support Center, we are united by a shared mission and vision, core values and guiding principles that drive everything we do and inform our approach to patient care, quality and how we do busine. We know that to achieve our vision of creating places where people choose to come for healthcare, physicians want to practice and employees want to work, we must organize around the right strategies. At LifePoint, our strategies are simple and enduring.
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Our Health Support Center (HSC), in Brentwood, Tennessee, has subject matter expertise in every area of healthcare operations and provider services. The HSC is organized to bring resources to bear across the continuum of care, from before a patient accesses healthcare services to after they are sent home, while keeping quality and compliance at the center.
On a daily basis, our group leaders and subject matter experts are working with our local markets to help develop and implement the right strategies that ensure healthcare thrives in their communities.
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