Job Description:

Responsible for assisting residentswith daily exercises as identified by the nursing and rehabilitationdepartments in an effort to promote physical well-being and use of arms, legs,and other body functions in accordance to laws, regulations, and facilityguidelines.

Job Duties:

• Assists residentswith daily range of motion and strength training exercise routines as providedby nursing and rehabilitation.
• Provides qualitynursing care to residents, including transfers and ambulation
• Assists residentsin the care of prosthesis or amputations
• Ensures properbed and wheelchair positioning of residents
• Provides assistanceto residents with eating and swallowing exercises
• Delivers mealsand performs feeding assistance to residents
• Ensures cleanlinessof water pitchers and provides refills of fresh water as needed
• Performs vitalsign monitoring/charting and observes residents for changes in condition orbehavior and reports to nursing supervisors
• Providesassistance with lifting, turning, moving, transporting or transferringresidents
• Monitorsincontinent residents to ensure bed linens and clothing are clean and dry
• Reduces the riskof skin breakdown by promptly reporting observations of skin breakdown pressureareas
• Communicates changesand ensures plan of care if being followed through effectively recordingchanges in charts

Other Job Duties:

• Adheres tofacility admission, discharge and transfer policies and prepares resident roomsfor arrival
• Answers residentcall lights promptly and courteously
• Assists residentswith toileting and bed pans
• Promotes interdepartmentalteamwork to meet resident needs
• Promotes anenvironment of positive public relations by displaying a calm, caring, warm andfriendly atmosphere in department and on each shift
• Provides trainingto new CNAs upon request
• Arrives to workas scheduled and makes rounds with previous shift
• Attends requiredin-service training programs

Skills