Home health cna - west valley

Job Details:

Job Location: Sunrise- Glendale - Glendale, AZ

Salary Range: Undisclosed

FUNCTION

The Certified Nursing Assistant is an employee, trained to provide personal care and services to the terminally ill to augment that care given by family members. She/he functions under the direction, instruction and supervision of the Nurse and/or the Nurse Supervisor.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment which may include:
• Helping the patient to maintain good personal hygiene.
• Assisting in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals.
• Grocery shopping when instructed to do so by the nurse.
• Assisting in feeding patient when needed.
• Assisting in measuring and preparing special diets as ordered by the physician, and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient.
• Assisting the patient in ambulation.
• Assisting with the use of a walker or wheelchair as taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient.
• Assisting with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient including assisting with the change of the colostomy bag, reinforcement of a dressing, assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar, doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumen, measuring intake and output, and may assist with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
• Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises which the Certified Home Health Aide and patient have been taught by the nurse or the physical therapist.
• Encouraging the patient to become as independent as possible according to the interdisciplinary care plan.
• Attempting to promote patient's mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gives simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and other members of the household.
• Reports any change in the patient's mental or physical condition or home situation to the Renaissance Hospice Nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Teaches basic care to the primary caregiver.
• Practices infection control measures per OSHA standards.
• Reads and records temperature, pulse and respiration.
• Keeps accurate records of patient's health care activities on interdisciplinary charts.
• Evaluates patient/family needs and assists in the preparation and execution of the interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Completes a minimum of 12 hours of in-services per year.
• Participates in at least one Quality Improvement activity yearly.

THE HOME HEALTH AIDE MAY NOT:

• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (such as an enema).
• Irrigate a colostomy or wound.
• Perform a gastric lavage or gavage.
• Catheterize a patient.
• Administer medications except those that are self-administered.
• Apply heat by any method.
• Care for a tracheotomy tube.
• Suction a patient.
• Do any personal health service which has not been included in the patient care plan by the Nurse.

DIRECTION RECEIVED

Reports directly to the Sunrise Health Services Nurse and/or the Sunrise Health Services Nurse Supervisor. Receives clinical direction from the patient's primary nurse.

Qualifications:

QUALIFICATIONS

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Proof of state certification, if applicable.
• One-year direct patient care experience in an institutional setting.
• SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Ability to travel per job requirements.
• Telephone available in home.