Certified Nursing Assistant-Transitional Living-PRN - Brooks Rehabilitation

Brooks Overview: 

For more than 50 years, the nonprofit Brooks Rehabilitation, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., has been a comprehensive system of care for physical rehabilitation. Ranked as the No. 1 rehabilitation hospital in Florida and one of the top 20 in the nation on U.S. News & World Report, Brooks operates two inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Jacksonville, Fla., and a Center for Inpatient Rehabilitation in partnership with Halifax Health (Daytona Beach). Brooks also offers one of the region’s largest home healthcare agencies; more than 50 outpatient therapy clinics; the Brooks Rehabilitation Medical Group; two skilled nursing facilities; assisted living; memory care; and the Clinical Research Center, which specializes in advanced research to further the science of rehabilitation. In addition, Brooks provides many low- or no-cost community programs and services to improve the quality of life for people living with physical disabilities. 

Location Overview: University Crossing

Position Summary:

A Certified Nursing Assistant is an employee who provides direct or indirect patient care under the supervision and direction of a nurse.  This position will provide care to brain and spinal cord injured patients in our skilled nursing facility.

Job Responsibilities:

• Accepts assignment, direction, and delegation of tasks from the nurse(s) based on patient age, diagnosis, developmental needs, and plan of care 
• Answers patient call lights.
• Provides direct ADL care and assistance, including bathing, showering, dressing, feeding for patients who are very dependent; assists those who are partially independent.
• Toilets patients or provides bedpan-urinal for elimination; cleans patients after each episode of incontinence.
• Serves patient trays, feeds patients who are very dependent; assists those who are partially independent by setting up the tray. Monitors patient for choking/aspiration.
• Provides oral hygiene and grooming to dependent patients.  Assists those who are partially independent.
• Turns and repositions patients.    
• Makes occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Assists with washing patient's personal clothing, as needed.
• Takes vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure), reports abnormalities to the nurse.
• Empties catheter bags; reports intake and output to the nurse.
• Provides condom catheter care.  
• Obtains specimens for laboratory tests.
• Performs, bladder scans.
• Interacts with patients and families; provides emotional support for same.
• Weighs patients
• Interacts with patients and families; provides emotional support for same.
• Transports patient to various therapies and other departments as required, transports or retrieves equipment, specimens, and other items as required, escorts patients to various doctor appointments.
• Records patient care as required (vital signs, I/O, weight, other).
• Cleans and tidies patient rooms, patient bathrooms, unit kitchen and refrigerator, utility rooms, and linen closet (removes dirty linen, trays, clothing; straightens patient personal belongings), straightens dayrooms, cleans other equipment or areas, as required.
• Monitors (watches) patients for safety (to prevent falls/injuries/wandering).
• Maintains confidentiality of patient information.
• Adheres to policies and procedures specific to patient rights.
• Maintains a clean and safe environment; identifies and reports hazards. Assures patients, guest, clients, and residents’ safety.
• Meets all mandatory in-service requirements.           
• Adheres to policies/procedures specific to universal precautions when delivering patient care.
• Complies with attendance policy
• Dresses in compliance with policy.    
• Adheres to policy for conduct.      
• Consistently behaves in a courteous manner to all.).
• Communicates and interacts appropriately with co-workers.
• Completes annual equipment and skills competency checklists.
• Participates in performance improvement activities as needed.
• Exhibits excellent service to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers

Job Qualifications: 

• License from the State of Florida. 
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required. 
• Hands-on BLS Card.

Shift-PRN 

Location: 6210 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville FL 32216