CNA Mother-Baby

About This Role

This role involves direct patient care as a Certified Nursing Assistant on the Mother-Baby unit at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, assisting registered nurses with ADLs and specified technical tasks. The CNA will perform vital sign assessment, patient mobility assistance, and nutritional support, ensuring compassionate and effective care.

Responsibilities

• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements
• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary
• Attend to nutritional needs of patient including distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers
• Provide morning or evening care, including bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand
• Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment, reporting equipment that is out of order and appropriately handling linen and storing supplies
• Provide general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices
• Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure
• Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered
• Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care
• Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests
• Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN

Requirements

• CNA Licensure from the State of Tennessee
• CPR
• Ability to operate computer
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to read with comprehension
• Ability to write legibly
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic computation

Qualifications

• Hospital experience preferred. Must be able to operate computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills. Must be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.

Nice to Have

• Hospital experience
• Medical terminology knowledge

Benefits