Orthopedic Spine Unit Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

DEPARTMENT DUTIES:

•    Performs general nursing procedures, teaching, interventions, goal setting and treatments (within scope of practice) and reports significant findings to the Registered Nurse (RN)
•    Supports changes in clinical practice and assists the department director with implementing changes in the hospital policies or practices
•    Participates in orientation of new staff as needed
•    Ensures compliance, knowledge and adherence with hospital’s policies and procedures
•    Maintains competence in practice
•    Participates in quality improvement programs
•    Provides skin care and hourly rounding to all assigned patients
•    Knowledgeable of growth, development and treatment needed in various populations served
•    Orients patients to room/unit and ensures, patient communication, white boards are complete
•    Utilizes universal precautions and ensures others do so as well
•    Ensures call lights are answered timely and report patient needs, which are outside of the scope of practice, to the appropriate personnel
•    Adheres to hospital attendance/tardiness policy
•    Attends all required education 
•    Organizes care and assumes responsibility for assigned group of patients
•    Demonstrates guest relations in communication, cooperation and providing assistance to patients, physicians, co-workers and visitors in a prompt and courteous manner
•    Advocates and ensures patient rights are upheld
•    Identifies patient safety risks and ensures patient safety is maintained 
•    Obtains and records vital signs, patient weight, activities of daily living, intake and output
•    Notifies RN and documents changes in patient’s appearance or behavior
•    Applies telemetry leads and troubleshooting if working on telemetry monitoring unit
•    Proficient with braces and specialized equipment utilized by patients
•    Assists in monitoring mental health patients
•    Other duties as appropriately assigned by unit director