GNA: Geriatric Nursing Assistant/CNA
Brooke Grove Foundation
- Williamsport, MD
- $19.00-23.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Benefit eligibility dependent on employment status and specific benefit offering
- Two comprehensive Medical coverage plans, as well as Dental and Vision
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, and Cancer Indemnity Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Paid Sick, Vacation, and Holiday Time
- Direct Deposit
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Provides personal care to residents in accordance with policy and procedure; includes oral hygiene/denture care, skin, hair and nail care, shaving and bathing.
- Accurately records and reports routine vital signs, weights and bowel movements in accordance with policy and procedure.
- Maintains awareness of comfort and safety needs of residents.
- Reports all physical and psychological changes in residents to licensed nurse.
- Assists residents with toileting as needed; includes assisting residents with urinals/bedpans and follows through with clean up and disposal in accordance with policy and procedure.
- Checks incontinent residents every two hours and changes residents as required.
- Turns and positions residents every two hours, or more frequently as needed.
- Practices safe lifting, moving and transferring of residents.
- Assists residents with ambulation as required; includes assisting residents to and from activities as needed.
- Maintains residents' rooms and closets in a neat and orderly manner in accordance with safety standards.
- Changes linens and makes beds, as required. Takes soiled linens and residents' personal clothing to laundry in accordance with policy and procedure.
- Empties soiled clothing and linens hampers as needed.
- Passes food trays, snacks and water on a timely basis and assists residents to and from dining areas as needed.
- Monitors residents during meals. Assists with feeding as necessary, and accurately records and reports intake of food and liquid.
- Assists with new admission of residents; includes re-admissions, discharges and room/bed reassignments.
- Follows proper safety practices and universal precautions in all activity.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to the three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience,
- Must hold a Maryland GNA License or start the process of submitting endorsement to the Maryland Board of Nursing if you hold a CNA license in another state.