Available Hours: 6pm -6am

Basic Function

• To provide assigned residents with routine daily nursing care in accordance with established nursing care procedures, state and federal guidelines, and as directed by your supervisor.

Essential Duties

• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Assist residents with dressing and ensure that dependent residents are dressed in clean clothing appropriate for season and in good repair.
• Give or assist resident with bathing.
• Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care.
• Keep incontinent residents clean, dry and odor free; check every two hours to maintain.
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions.
• Position residents maintaining good body alignment.
• Keep residents dry, changing clothes and gowns when wet or soiled.
• Make beds and change bed linens when soiled.
• Shave male patients’ daily and female residents as needed.
• Keep resident’s finger and toenails clean and trimmed.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Assist resident with hair combing and brushing, shampooing and styling.
• Assist residents in preparing for activity and social programs and transport, accompany and participate when assigned.
• Maintain records accurately and timely.
• Chart timely and accurately in Point of Care (if applicable).
• Measure and record T, P, R, and weights as instructed.
• Observe and report the presence of skin breakdown or redness to the nurse.
• Observe and report any physical or emotional changes observed in the residents including any complaints or grievances made by the resident.
• Prepare resident for meals, assist serving food trays or feed as necessary and record/or report residents intake or acceptance of food.
• Serve between meal and bedtime snacks or nourishments.
• Attend all mandatory in-services and maintain 12 hours of training each year.
• Keep nurse call system within easy reach and answer call lights within 10 minutes.
• Report all hazardous conditions and equipment to the nurse immediately.
• Follow established safety precautions in performance of all duties.
• Wash hands before and after performing any service for the resident and follow infection control guidelines and universal precautions.
• Keep wheel chairs, tables, geri chairs, commodes and other resident equipment clean.
• Follow established isolation precautions and procedures.
• Review care plans daily to ensure provision of appropriate care.
• Maintain confidentiality of all resident call information and ensure resident privacy.
• Treat all residents, families and visitors with kindness, dignity and respect.

Essential Duties (cont’d.)

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with policy and procedure and instruction of your supervisor.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive regard as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Adhere to all facility and department policies and procedures.
• Appropriate application and response to personal/door alarms.

Supervision Received

• Receives supervision from Nursing Supervisor.

Qualifications

• Requires valid deemed nurse aide certification in the State of Illinois.
• Requires employee to have had no abuse convictions.
• Prompt and regular attendance.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Ability to read, write, and spell and to understand and follow both written and oral directions.
• Ability to communicate and work well with residents and staff members.
• Ability to speak the English language in an understandable manner.
• Ability to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to assure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
• Ability to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, mentally ill, emotionally upset and at times hostile and violent residents within the facility.
• Ability to remain current in practice as applicable to job.

Working Conditions

• Works in well lighted and ventilated areas throughout the facility, i.e. residents rooms, nurses stations, med rooms, tub rooms, dining rooms, lounges and corridors and hallways.
• Subject to frequent interruptions.
• Subject to involvement with personnel, visitors, state and federal agency personnel and residents.
• Subject to hostile, emotionally upset residents as well as verbally and physically abusive residents on an occasional basis.
• Subject to exposure to infectious waste, disease and conditions as well as unpleasant odors and sites.
• Provided with necessary protective equipment and devices and services to ensure safety including but not limited to gowns, gloves, goggles, shoe covers, handwashing facilities, masks, Hepatitis B vaccine.