Overview

　　Certified Nursing Assistant | CNA, Surgery Unit

　　Full Time, 72 Hours per pay period, Night Shift

　　May be required to work some days, nights, holiday's and weekends at the discretion of the nurse manager.

　　Morristown Hamblen Overview:

　　Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System has 167 licensed beds and 23 emergency suites. The hospital offers outstanding ancillary services including Laboratory, Radiology and Therapy services. At our Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, women can have their annual mammograms, biopsies, and can meet with a nurse navigator if needed. The Women’s Center offers six newly remodeled labor and delivery suites and has a secure nursery for the care of our newborns . It serves an eight-county region in the Lakeway Area and is equipped with modern technologies and expert staff to provide the best possible patient care. Learn more about our amazing facility athttps://www.morristownhamblen.com/.

　　Surgery Unit:

　　The surgery center at Morristown Hamblen Healthcare System is comprised of 10 surgery suites and 2 GI specialty suites. Our team of surgical experts has access to the latest technology and performs thousands of inpatient and outpatient procedures each year. The Surgery staff is comprised of RNs, CSTs, and CNAs that work together to provide excellent patient care.

　　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:Sandra Simmons||[email protected] ([email protected]) ||865-374-5368

　　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.

　　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:

　　Must have and maintain Tennessee CNA certification. CPR required.

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　　Job Title CNA

　　ID 3917273

　　Facility Morristown-Hamblen Health System

　　Department Name SURGERY UNIT