Certified Nursing Assistant in Hingham, Massachusetts at HealthcareSource Medical Center

Certified Nursing Assistant

Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties, such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, or move patients, or change linens.

Detailed Work Activities:
-Assisting and Caring for Others
-Interacting With Computers
-Making Decisions and Solving Problems

Tasks include:
-Answer patients' call signals.
-Answer phones and direct visitors.
-Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
-Clean rooms and change linens.
-Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.
-Maintain inventory by storing, preparing, sterilizing, and issuing supplies such as dressing packs and treatment trays.
-Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
-Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
-Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
-Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
-Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats clinic outpatients.