Certified Nursing Assistant

West Virginia Employer • Chester, WV • 21h ago

NIGHT SHIFT -- Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and/or Experience Certificate upon completion of an approved nurse's aide certification curriculum. Complete annual state mandated training requirements (Regular In-services as well as any external training). Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk throughout the facility. The employee is regularly required to: 1) complete duties and provide therapeutic touch; 2) reach with hands and arms; and 3) balance to: use the telephone or computer, use medical equipment to assess resident vital signs, prepare residents to be lifted, operate the Sit to Stand Maxi/Hoyer lifts, lift or assist a resident out of a chair or bed, feed residents, serve meals, make beds and change linens, dress residents, fold laundry, turn door knobs, reposition chair alarms, assist or perform personal hygiene care for resident (brushing teeth, bathing or showering, drying after bath or shower), manipulate walkers and wheelchairs, assist residents when walking, store clean linens in closets, push residents in wheelchairs, and put away dishes, glasses, etc. The employee is regularly required to stoop, kneel, or crouch during the following tasks: Bend at a 45-degree angle to lift or re-position a resident in their wheelchair. Bend at a 45 - 90 degree angle to awaken and help a resident from bed. Bend at a 45 - 90 degree to talk to, feed, cleanse, etc. a bedridden resident. Bend at a 45 - 90 degree angle to change residents bed linens. Bend or kneel when drying a resident after a shower. Stoop or kneel when pulling on socks, shoes, pants, etc. Stoop or kneel to tie shoes, put on slippers, etc. Bend, stoop or kneel to pick up food, clothing or other items from the floor. Stoop, kneel, crouch, and bend when leading the daily exercise activity. Stoop, kneel, or crouch when communicating with residents. The employee is required to talk or hear on an on-going basis when communicating with various individuals. The employee is frequently required to use his/her senses of taste and smell to ensure that food is tasty and edible and to detect odors within the unit and emanating from the residents or their belongings. The employee is occasionally required to sit at a desk when charting and at a table to feed residents. The employee frequently lifts and/or moves up to 100 pounds when assisting a resident out of bed or a chair with the aid of lift equipment or assist of two and when transporting residents by wheelchair. The employee occasionally lifts and/or moves more than 100 pounds when assisting or transporting heavier residents with the aid of lift equipment or the assist of two. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus in situations such as but not limited to the following: Reading and writing reports (close vision and the ability to adjust focus). Recording of vital signs (close vision and the ability adjust focus). Watching over residents for their safety and monitoring their behavior (close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision). Keeping hallways and rooms safe (distance vision, close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus). Measuring liquids for input and output recording (close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus). Reading thermometers (close vision and ability to adjust focus). Assessing residents' skin texture and color (close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus). Observing residents breathing pattern from doorway at evening rounds (depth perception, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus). Dressing a resident or to identify proper adult protection for incontinence as they are color and size coordinated (close vision and color vision). Using devices to check color-coded wander guard bracelets (color vision, close vision, and ability to adjust focus). Assisting residents in walking with walker (close vision, distance vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus). NIGHT SHIFT.

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