Certified Nursing Assistant

This position requires certification as a New York State Certified Nursing Assistant.

Under direct clinical supervision, performs the following duties:

• Changes simple dressings, gives enemas, douches, and irrigations as directed.
• Applies abdominal "T" binders, hot water bottles, aqua "K" pads, ice bags, and coolers, and hot and cold compresses to patients as directed.
• Assists patients in collecting urine and stool specimens.
• Observes and records patients' quantitative food and fluid intake and waste output.
• Takes temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate.
• Gives therapeutic baths such as sitz and fever sponge baths.
• Measures and records height and weight.
• Inspects functioning oxygen therapy equipment including tents, masks, and cannulae to ensure appropriate functioning.
• Recognizes and reports abnormal signs and symptoms of common diseases and conditions to clinical staff.
• Applies splints, braces, slings, and other self-help devices.
• Operates a variety of specialized patient monitoring and treatment devices.
• Attends to patients' hygiene and daily living needs to maintain an atmosphere conducive to patient comfort and treatment. Examples include bathing and dressing patients, brushing teeth, and trimming nails.
• Collects and carries patients' laundry and dry cleaning and delivers objects to appropriate locations in the health care facility.
• Receives patients' belongings and transports objects to safe storage, keeping appropriate records.
• Feeds patients requiring assistance.
• As directed by clinical staff, moves, positions, lifts, and transports patients using a variety of lifts and other aids to make patients comfortable, prepare patients for treatment, deliver patients to treatment areas, and prevent contractures.
• Brings bedpans and urinals to patients requiring assistance and attends to incontinent patients.
• Talks and listens to patients and responds by encouraging patients to cooperate and participate in treatment activities.
• May transport patients and supplies on occasion.
• May perform a variety of limited housekeeping and cleaning duties related to direct patient care to ensure that treatment and patient areas are clean, sanitary, orderly, and properly supplied.