CNA
Company: Covenant Health (Tennessee)
Location: Sevierville
Posted on: March 17, 2023
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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:
unmatched medical insurance,
tuition reimbursement;
student loan repayment assistance,
certification bonuses;
leadership and professional development programs;
an employer-matched 401(k); and
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
Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood
pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use
incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs
and transport when necessary.
Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include
distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water
pitchers,
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.
Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and
record intake and output.
Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include
reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of
linen and storing of supplies.
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.
Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as
specified by the patients' plan of care.
Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include
correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of
lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
Perform EKG (requires special training).
Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient
requests.
Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work
environment.
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.
Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and
proper placement.
Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside
Ambulate patients with oxygen.
Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific
needs of the population served.
Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant
checklist.
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.
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
Keywords: Covenant Health (Tennessee), Knoxville , CNA, Healthcare , Sevierville, Tennessee
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