Certified Nursing Assistant - Staff Today (STI)

Health Advocates Network is currently seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to work at a facility in Stony Brook, NY. These are registry positions with our company.

Duties of a Certified Nursing Assistant include but are not limited to:

• Attend to daily living activities, personal, hygienic, and simple human needs in order to maintain in the clinical facility an atmosphere conducive to treatment and comfortable for residents in care.
• As directed by professional staff, moves, positions, lifts and transports residents in care using a variety of lifts and other aids in order to make them more comfortable, to prepare them for treatment and to deliver them to appropriate treatment facilities.
• Talk and listen to residents in care and respond by encouraging them to cooperate and participate in treatment activities in order to help them achieve attitudes conducive to treatment and rehabilitation.
• Transport resident and supplies on occasion.
• Maintain residents in-care rights, dignity, and confidentiality.
• On occasion and in conjunction with providing care, may perform a variety of housekeeping and cleaning duties as related to direct care in order to assure that the clinical facility is clean, sanitary, orderly, and properly supplied.
• Participate in required quarterly in-service education to maintain certification and meet all necessary requirements to be re-certified every two years.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1-year previous working experience as a CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
• Ability to build rapport with patients
• Compassionate and caring demeanor
• Familiarity with medical terminology
• CPR card issued by the American Heart Association
• Must have up to date certification in the state of NY

If interested, please apply through this job post. You may send a copy of your most recent resume. If you have any questions, please feel free to call at (800) 928-5561 and ask to speak with Pauline Monday-Friday (08:30 AM - 05:00 PM PST).