Under New Leadership!
Come join a new team and help us build something fun, successful, and that provides excellent care.
This position reports to the Director of Nursing. Participates as an active member of the health care team utilizing trained skills and sound judgement in providing compassionate care for the residents at the facility.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Care for multiple residents in the facility.
- Observe Residents Rights
- Provide personal care and assistance with activities of daily living.
- Bathing: Dressing
- Feeding: Pass and pick-up food trays; Serve nourishments; keep record of intake and output
- Transfer to and from bed or chair or other locations within the facility
- Assist to and from toilet, assist with any toileting needs
- Keep incontinent residents clean
- Monitor and record bowel movements
- Pass and empty bedpans, urinals and emesis basins; Collect specimens such as urine, stool, and sputum
- Reposition residents in bed or chair
- Assist with personal and dental hygiene
- Assist in ambulation
- Make beds; change linens
- Answer call lights and make rounds
- Provide Post Mortem Care
- Take and record vital signs; Measure and record height and weight
- Record Activities of Daily living on flow sheets
- Observe residents and note physical condition, attitude, reactions, appetite, etc. and report any changes to the nurse.
- Use safety devices and standard precautions to prevent the spread of infection and disease.
- Monitor dining room during mealtimes as scheduled
- Evacuate residents in an emergency, according to fire and evacuation policy.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist nurse with admitting, transferring, and discharging residents
- Assist nurse in giving treatments and examining residents
- Assist with restorative and rehab care with proper instruction and supervision
Equipment Used:
- Tray, cats, hoyer lift, whirlpool tub, shower, wheelchairs, walkers, canes, carts, linens, towels, standard precautions (gloves, goggles, mask, aprons), thermometers, stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, scale, urinals, bed pans, commodes and personal hygiene supplies.
Qualifications:
- Successfully complete a state-approved nurses aide-training program
- Must understand English both written and spoken
- Must have current certification and registration with the WA Department of Health
- Must be able to safely and successfully perform job-related functions, with or without reasonable accommodation required by Federal, State or Local Law
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $23.55 - $24.84 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
Physical setting:
- Inpatient
- Long term care
- Nursing home
- Rehabilitation center
Standard shift:
Supplemental schedule:
- Extended hours
- Holidays
- On call
- Overtime
Weekly schedule:
- 5x8
- Monday to Friday
- Rotating weekends
- Weekends as needed
Experience:
- Caregiving: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CPR Certification (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Auburn, WA 98002 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Auburn, WA 98002: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person