Certified Nursing Assistant - HealthcareSource Medical Center

Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties, such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, or move patients, or change linens.

Detailed Work Activities:
-Assisting and Caring for Others
-Interacting With Computers
-Making Decisions and Solving Problems

Tasks include:
-Answer patients' call signals.
-Answer phones and direct visitors.
-Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
-Clean rooms and change linens.
-Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.
-Maintain inventory by storing, preparing, sterilizing, and issuing supplies such as dressing packs and treatment trays.
-Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
-Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
-Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
-Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
-Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats clinic outpatients.

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