Certified Nursing Assistant - Per Diem Days

Hackensack Meridian Health•Edison, NJ

1d•$22•Onsite

About The Position

Our CNAs are the heart of our Hackensack Meridian Health Nursing & Rehab team, which is why we offer highly competitive pay rates from day one! Brand new CNA graduates start out earning $20.32 per hour, and our pay rates increase from there based on years of experience. In addition, we are currently offering a $2,500 sign-on bonus to eligible CNAs who join our team. Please apply today so that we can discuss your future and career with Hackensack Meridian Health! Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. The role of a Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.) is to demonstrate the ability to provide exceptional resident care. The C.N.A. also ensures resident’s plan of care is followed. He or she must complete all required documentation as per state/federal guidelines, while also following all facility policies and procedures.

Requirements

Completion of an approved CNA program
Able to lift 50lbs.
Current with all Continuing Education (CE) requirements
Perform clinical care professionally
Serve as patient advocate and role model to other Team Members
Deliver patient care in a timely, efficient, and effective manner
Ability to effectively work on a multidisciplinary team
NJ CNA License

Nice To Haves

Computer skills, including Microsoft Office
Long-term care and rehabilitation facility experience
Prior work experience with geriatric and disabled populations
Bi-lingual (Spanish)

Responsibilities

Part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver patient-centered nursing and rehabilitation services to patients.
Provides direct resident care to ensure resident's plan of care is followed.
Provides the highest level of service to all patient's, families, and visitors to ensure satisfaction.
Completes all required documentation as per state/federal and facility guidelines.
Provides patient care, as per Patient Care Plan, including but not limited to ROM exercises, ambulation, transfer training, assisting with feeding and calorie counts, bed making, personal hygiene, skin checks, AM and HS care, vital signs, answer call bells promptly, post-mortem care, assist with room changes, and participate in reports.
Identify and report all real or potential problems regarding the administration of patient care.
Ensure residents are wearing/using adaptive equipment, as ordered.
Ensures patients are clean, neatly dressed, groomed, safe, and fed during assigned shift hours.
Follows through on ordered restorative nursing for assigned patients.
Completes all required tasks, documentation, and reports daily as per facility policy and state and federal regulations.
Records intake and output and bowel movements.
Reports any unusual changes in patient condition to Charge Nurse promptly.
Communicates pertinent information and actual or potential problems to RN throughout shift.
Participates on committees, as requested by supervisors.
Identifies patient needs and treatment opportunities, providing services to meet those needs on an on-going basis.
Maintains professional competence and keeps current with Occupational Health trends through participation in continuing education, in-service programs, professional staff sessions and training of nursing personnel.
Fosters good relationships and communications with all Team Members, patients, family/significant others and visitors.
Additional duties as assigned