CNA & Personal Care Attendant
CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant
NEW WAGE SCALE EFFECTIVE 1 NOVEMBER, 2021
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Our award winning, 5-Star Facility is located in the beautiful resort area of Blue Water Bay, Niceville, FL.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Tuition Assistance
- Shift Differential Pay
Purpose:
Provide direct and indirect patient care activities under the direction of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse. Assist patients with activities of daily living, provide personal care, comforts and assist in the maintenance of a safe and clean environment for an assigned group of residents.
Qualifications:
- Ability to meet performance requirements
- Educate and Training
- Must be Certified Nursing Assistant
- Attend in-service programs, as assigned, to learn procedures and develop skills and meet state requirements
Personal Qualifications:
- Sensitive to our residents physical and psychosocial needs.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions
- Capable of charting accurately of the Residents Care Record or other similar form
- Pleasant and cheerful personality
- Tactful and Courteous approach with residents and Visitors
- Treat all residents information as confidential material
- Adhere to dress code as directed by Center Policy.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities Required:
- Understand and practice universal precautions with all resident care
- Perform all task/Procedures included on assignment or report to charge nurse any task not completed.
- Assists in the preparation for admission of residents
- Assist in and accompanies residents in admission, Transfer, and discharge procedures (Packing, unpacking, etc.)
- Provides post-mortem care
- Provide morning care, which may include bed bath, Oral Hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing residents, changing bed linen,cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other general care as necessary throughout the day.
- Provide evening care, which may include washing hands/face as needed, oral hygiene, special skin care, freshening linen, cleaning over-bed tables, straightening room, and other general care as needed.
- Provides general nursing care such as positioning residents, Lifting and turning residents, Applying/utilizing special equipment, assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode, and ambulating the resident with a gait belt.
- Takes and records temperature, pulse, respirations, weight, height ,blood pressure and intake and output measures
- Adheres to policies and procedures of the center and the Department of Nursing.
- Participates in socialization activities on the unit and assists residents to activities.
- Tums and positions as ordered and/or as needed, making sure no rough surfaces are in direct contact with the body. Lifts and turns with proper and safe mechanics and with available resources.
- Checks for reddened areas or skin breakdown and reports to an RN or LPN.
- Ensures that residents are dressed properly and assists as necessary.
- Ensures that clothing is properly stored in dressers or on hangers.
- Ensures that all residents are clean and dry at all times
- Check unit for adequate linen and supplies
- Restrains residents properly when ordered. Understands reasons from restraint and suggests less restrictive measures if possible
- Accompanies residents to appointments as directed
- Provides reality orientation in daily care
- Prepares residents for meals and services, removes food trays and assists with meals or feeding residents
- Distributes drinking water and other nourishments to residents
- Performs general care activities for residents in isolation, adhering to the center’s Infection Control Policies
- Answers residents call lights, anticipates residents needs, and make rounds to assigned residents
- Assists residents with handling and care of clothing and other personal property (including dentures, glasses, contact lenses, hearing aides ,and prosthetic devices)
- Collects and transports specimens as directed
- Reports (and records when appropriate) and changes observed in condition or behavior of resident and any unusual incidents
- Familiar with Nursing Care Plans and contributes when new information is available.
- Assists in maintaining a safe and clean environment, reports equipment that is out of order, reports other problems to the charge nurse, maintains appropriate handling of clean and soiled lined, and stores supplies on the unit.
- Establishes and maintains interpersonal relationships with residents, family members, and other center personnel, while assuring confidentiality of resident information
- Attends in-service education programs, as needed, to learn new procedures, develop skills, etc.
- Practice careful, efficient and non-wasteful use of supplies and linen, and follows established charge procedures for resident charge items.
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Supplemental Pay:
- Sign-On bonus
Experience:
- Caregiving: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CNA (Required)
Personal Care Attendant (PCA)
Niceville, FL
Full Time
Personal Care Attendant (Non-Certified)
NEW WAGE SCALE EFFECTIVE 1 NOVEMBER, 2021
Free Training and Tuition Assistance! No experience Required
Join Our Career Ladder Plan! Earn While You Learn!
Our award winning, 5-Star Facility is located in the beautiful resort area of Blue Water Bay, Niceville, FL.
Join as a Personal Care Attendant (PCA) and receive paid on-the-job training that will help you become a Licensed Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).
Job Type: Full-time/Part Time Positions Available
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Tuition Assistance: Join us as a Personal Care Attendant (PCA) and start your career today. Interested in becoming CNA, LPN, or RN? We have partnered with NWFS to offer free tuition to help you achieve your health care career goals. (Must pass drug and background screenings) .
- Shift Differential Pay
Must attend 16 hours in house training and shadowing sessions under direction of an R.N.
This is a new program approved by the State of Florida. Eligible and successful applications may be able to challenge the CNA test upon completion of time.
Duties /Responsibilities Include:
- Make occupied/unoccupied bed
- Pass Fresh Ice/water
- Pass meals/set up trays for Resident
- Check Resident Temps
- Perform 1 person transfers
- Reposition resident in bed/float heels
- Transfer Resident to wheelchair using gait belt
- Use gait belt to assist with ambulation
- Oral Care/dentures (alert residents)
- Provide a bed bath/perineal/catheter care
- Change incontinent brief
- Assist with hearing aids
- Assist resident to bathroom or to the urinal (one person assist)
- Completed Application
- Proof of your High School Diploma or GED
- Valid Photo Identification
- Social Security Card
- Clear FDLE/FBI Background Screen
We will consult the Florida and/or National Abuse Registry for Children and Adults. No one with a felony conviction, certain misdemeanor charges, and/or found on the abuse registry can be admitted to the class.
No facial piercings are to be worn to class except for earrings by female students.
A watch with a second hand or “seconds counter” is required for class. Lunch is available daily at the center for $3.00.
If you have been accepted into the class, you will receive be notified by phone. Please DO NOT call the facility to check on the status of your acceptance.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Tuition Assistance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Holidays
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- None
The Manor at Blue Water Bay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Manor does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.