About This Role
This role is responsible for managing the schedules of nursing staff and residents in a healthcare setting. It involves coordinating appointments and transportation for residents, as well as ensuring adequate staffing coverage. The position requires a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) who can also perform direct patient care duties.
Responsibilities
- Maintain schedules for the nursing staff
- Schedule doctor appointments for residents
- Schedule transportation for residents for their appointments
- Maintain daily staffing census
- Handle staffing needs to ensure coverage
- Answer signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine residents' needs and ensure call lights are within reach of resident
- Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently
- Give direct resident care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of residents
- Explain procedures to residents
- Assist residents as necessary in their activities of daily living
- Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions
- Assist residents in preparation for and transporting to appointments, activities and social programs
- Assist with lifting, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs
- Provide incontinent care as needed
- Dress resident appropriate to the current weather
- Notify Supervisor if resident needs clothing
- Change bed linens
- Handle linens according to infection control guidelines
- Feed residents requiring help and record meal intake
- Deliver and document all snacks and supplements
- Offer fluids to residents frequently to ensure that residents are hydrated where designated by care plan
- Review and implement daily nursing needs as outlined by resident Care Plan or nurse managers
- Transport residents or assist residents with mobility needs
- Turn and reposition bedfast residents, alone or with assistance
- Take and record temperatures, blood pressure, pulse rates, respiration rates, height, weight, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed
- Monitor resident's activities and report any irregularities of resident performance to nurse managers
- Participate in and receive nursing report upon reporting and departing to/from work
- Report all changes in residents' conditions to supervisor
- Clean instruments and equipment and return to proper area after use
- Maintain cleanliness of residents units, central bathing area, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms, and linen closets
