DZEEL CLINICAL
To ensure the wellbeing of the patients by performing a variety of tasks that help with daily living activities. You will provide outstanding patient care and physical support for patients and residents on a daily basis. To do well in this role you should have your state-certified nursing assistant certification and a nursing degree from a recognized CNA program.
Individual tasks can vary based on the facility needs and the type of patients.
Responsibilities:
Psych experience minimum 1 year is a must!
- Providing great patient care
- Obtaining a wide range of information from physicians, caregivers, and nurses about patient conditions, treatment plans, and suggested activities
- Examining patients to detect issues requiring medical care, including open wounds, bruises, or blood in the urine
- Answering call buttons and alerting nurses to emergencies
- Monitoring patient needs and reporting any issues to other healthcare personnel
- Helping patients with their daily needs, such as eating, bathing, dressing, and toileting
- Ensuring patient comfort by changing bedding, filling water jugs, and positioning items so they are in reach
- Repositioning patients in beds
- Helping patients move from a bed to a chair or wheelchair and back
- Assisting with lifting patients from their bed to examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers
- Stay up to date on CNA training and facility policy and procedure.
Depending on state regulations and facility requirements, some CNAs may perform additional advanced duties that include:
- Measuring and recording food and liquid consumption
- Accompanying patients to off-site doctor appointments
- Stocking or issuing medical supplies, such as dressing packs or treatment trays
- Measuring vital signs, including blood pressure, oxygen level, and temperature
- Explaining medical procedures and tests to patients and their families
- Dispensing medication as prescribed
- Changing dressings and bandages
- Setting up equipment such as oxygen tents, portable radiograph (X-ray) equipment, or IVs
- Assisting in minor medical procedures
Requirements:
- State Certified Nursing Assistant Certification.
- Current CPR (American Heart Association).
- Nursing degree from a CNA program.
- Ability to think and work independently and with direction, and communicate with staff members in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
- Current certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
- High School graduate or equivalent.
- Current identification.
- Comfortable using a computer.
- Excellent personal hygiene.