Certified Nursing Assistant

As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will be a cornerstone of patient care, directly contributing to comfort, safety, and recovery by providing essential support under RN direction.

Every day, you will deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and actively contribute to the patient's plan of care as a vital member of our interdisciplinary team, upholding the highest standards of conduct and patient well-being.

To be successful in this role, you will possess a dedicated spirit of service, strong communication skills, a meticulous approach to patient support, and an unwavering commitment to our mission of dignified, high-quality healthcare.

• Patient Satisfaction: Is a role model for the Hospital's Patient Satisfaction effort, i.e. demonstrates AIDET principles when interacting with customers, subordinates and colleagues.
• Takes vital signs and daily weights, Reports If: BP, < 90 or > 140, or any change in BP; Urine output < 30 cc/hour; Inability to void/complaints of discomfort; Change in mental status; Diaphoresis; Change in cardiac rhythm; Complaints of tenderness in calves; Accepts direction from Team leading RN or Associate Director regarding professional tasks within the realm of Nursing and within hospital policies and procedures
• Records on the patient chart/flow sheet information obtained, such as vital signs and intake and output amount. ASSISTS PATIENTS WITH AND/OR PERFORMS FOR PATIENTS THE ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING AND PRESCRIBED ACTIVITIES UTILIZING KNOWLEDGE OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE LIFE SPAN. Performs or assists with elements of personal hygiene: Bathing (including special skin care and linen changes); Oral hygiene; Catheter care; Shampoo hair (when allowed by physician); P.M. / H.S. care; Turns and positions patient at least every two hours.
• Accepts direction from Team leading RN or Associate Director regarding professional tasks within the realm of Nursing and within hospital policies and procedures.
• Performs other physical care as assigned (i.e., sitz bath, applying binders, anti-embolism stockings, braces, collars, encourages use of DBC and/or inspirator sphygmomanometer, and prepares patient for surgery or special procedures).
• Assists patients in meeting nutritional needs: serves diet trays, feeds or assists patients with eating as needed, serves and assists patients with nourishments, prepares naso-gastric tube feedings for R.N. to infuse

Required

• Certified Nursing Assistant: CA
• AHA Basic Life Support - CPR

Founded as a faith-based hospital in 1931 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Dignity Health – St. Bernardine Medical Center is a 342-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Bernardino, California. The hospital offers a full complement of services, including the Inland Empire Heart and Vascular Institute, an award-winning orthopedics program, surgical weight loss, and is an official Neurovascular Stroke Center, as designated by ICEMA. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/stbernardinemedical for more information.

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