CNA

Company: Covenant Health (Tennessee)
Location: Sevierville
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Overview
Certified Nursing Assistant, Intermediate Care Unit
Full Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Night Shift
LeConte Medical Center is a part of Covenant Health, our region's top-performing healthcare network and is a 79-bed community hospital located in the heart of Sevier County. We're a full-service, not-for-profit hospital delivering modern medicine and compassionate care to the growing Sevier County community. LeConte offers a full range of health services, including top-tier specialists, a modern ER, and a beautiful Women's Center. Learn more about our amazing facility athttps://www.lecontemedicalcenter.com/about-leconte-medical-center/.
As you'd expect, we offer our employees a robust benefits package, including:

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  unmatched medical insurance,
  
  
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  tuition reimbursement;
  
  
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  student loan repayment assistance,
  
  
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  certification bonuses;
  
  
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  leadership and professional development programs;
  
  
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  an employer-matched 401(k); and
  
  
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  a generous Combined Time Off (CTO) program .
  
  
  Position Summary: Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist registered nurses. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL's and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader.
  Recruiter: Whitney Mocsari -- wmocsari@covhlth.com -- 865-374-5384
  Responsibilities
  
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    Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
    
    
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    Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
    
    
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    Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
    
    
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    Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,
    
    
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    Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
    
    
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    Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
    
    
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    Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
    
    
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    Provides general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
    
    
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    Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
    
    
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    Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
    
    
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    Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
    
    
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    Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
    
    
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    Perform EKG (requires special training).
    
    
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    Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
    
    
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    Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
    
    
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    Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
    
    
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    Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
    
    
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    Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
    
    
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    Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
    
    
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    Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside
    
    
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    Ambulate patients with oxygen.
    
    
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    Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
    
    
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    Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
    
    
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    Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
    
    
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    Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
    
    
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    Performs other duties as assigned. Not to exceed scope of practice.
    
    
    Qualifications
    Minimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
    Minimum Experience: None.
    Licensure Requirement: CNA certification from state of Tennessee required. CPR required.BLS certification required.
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    Job Title CNA
    ID 3473306
    Facility LeConte Medical Center
    Department Name INTERMEDIATE CARE UN

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