Certified nursing assistant

Job description

• Provide basic nursing care and support (VS, hygiene, ambulation, transfers)
• Documentation of patient location, status, activities
• Escort patients as needed within and occasionally outside the hospital
• Assist in keeping patient common areas clean
• Contributes to patient/staff safety by identifying safety hazards and emergency situations
• Initiates corrective action as appropriate
• Contributes to continuity of care by effectively communicating changes in patients’ conditions
• Complies with FSH infection prevention and control policies and procedures
• Demonstrates procedural competencies for assigned tasks
• Complies with all FSH/DMH policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned