CNA - Bronx

Job Purpose: Serves patients by providing educational information; helping with daily living; monitoring vital signs and functions.Is your CV ready If so, and you are confident this is the role for you, make sure to apply asap.Duties: * Educates patients and their families by assisting in preoperative, postoperative, and relevant health teaching.* Provides ancillary medical care by dressing wounds; giving enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages; applying compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.* Maintains patient stability by taking and recording vital signs.* Maintains patient nutrition by examining food trays for prescribed diet; feeding patients; recording food and fluid intake and output.* Helps patients with daily living by bathing, dressing, and assisting patients in walking and turning.* Keeps nursing supervisors informed by observing patients and reporting adverse reactions to medication or treatment.* Maintains equipment and supplies.* Performs routine laboratory tests by collecting samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum.* Prepares cadavers for mortuary by washing and dressing deceased persons.* Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. xijylhu * Enhances nursing and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.Skills/Qualifications: NYS CNA Certificate, Pain Management, Nutrition, Informing Others, Hospital Environment, Bedside Manner, Nursing Skills, Listening, Multi-tasking, Medical Teamwork, Acute/Critical Care

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