Nurse Assistant Certified - Transitional Care Job at McLaren Lapeer Region
About Us
McLaren Health Care is a fully integrated health network committed to quality, evidence-based patient care with locations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals in Michigan and Ohio, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.
Position Summary:
Under the direction of a Licensed Nurse, supports the Nursing Staff by performing basic nursing care to the resident. Assist and maintains a safe and clean work environment. Maintains resident privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and respects resident’s rights.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Hourly Rounding including: Pain, Position, Personal needs, and Possessions
- Assist residents in and out of bed and into a wheelchair using the correct lifting and transferring technique.
- Gives residents baths.
- Assists residents in dressing and undressing.
- Assists residents in using the bathroom and giving personal care.
- Assists residents to dining area for meals. Helps feed residents.
- Strips beds and replaces with clean linens.
- Turn the resident intermittently if bedridden due to illness.
- Assist with toileting via bedpan, urinal, bedside commode, or to the bathroom, following toileting schedules.
- Document information regarding resident’s health.
- Clean residents’ closets and bedside cabinets.
- Transfer residents according to prescribed transfer technique.
- Rinse soiled linen/handle soiled linen in accordance with Infection Control Policy/Standard Precautions.
- Position residents in bed, using a lift or manually, lifting from chair to bed. Assist in and out of shower and routinely assist resident in range of motion exercise. Follow turning and OOB schedules.
- Bend, twist and stoop on a regular basis and be able to lift a minimum of 75 pounds.
- Assist residents with exercises, walking and encourage self help progress.
- Wash bed pans, urinals, commodes and wheelchairs.
- Pass feeding trays and assist residents in eating and picking up trays.
- Pass juice and snacks as required.
- Continuously make resident care rounds, placing side rails, reposition residents, encouraging and alleviating distress using proper methodology.
- Change and clean up an incontinent resident.
- Answer all resident calls and lights not just those on your assignment.
- Assist residents with activities during shift.
Qualifications:
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Successful completion of a Michigan State Certified Nurse Aide training program & current State of Michigan certification
- BLS Certification within 3 months of hire
Preferred:
- Previous experience as a Nurse Aide
- Schedule: Full-time
- Requisition ID: 22012662
- Daily Work Times: 11a-1130p
- Hours Per Pay Period: 72
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes
Per Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations, all McLaren employees must be vaccinated for COVID-19 by January 4, 2022. The regulation permits exemptions for employees with qualified medical disabilities or religious beliefs.
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
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