CNA at BLESSED BLOSSOM HOMES (2023-06 – Present)
Duties and responsibilities
- Track any behavioral changes in patients that may be of use to healthcare providers.
- Chart patient observations following prescribed procedures and standards.
- Participate in the development and implementation of patient treatment programs.
- Maintain confidentiality of patient records
- Perform Taking patients' vital signs, including pulse rate, breathing rate and blood Pressure.
- Administering medications and supervising patients to ensure they take them.
- Helping patients bathe, groom, dress or use the bathroom as needed.
- Notating patient records with changes in health status or behavior
- Escorting or transporting patients inside the facility or to appointments off campus
- Intervening when patients become dangerous to themselves or others.
- Communicating with staff, patients and their family members as needed initial patient Evaluations to determine treatment priorities, such as taking vital signs, weight, as well as Urine, stool and sputum specimens.
CNA at DESSERT ELDERLY RETIREMENT GROUP HOMES (2022-02-15 – 2023-06)
Responsibilities
- assisting nurses in triaging and managing the medical and behavioral health needs of Patients in the Evaluation and Treatment and/or Secure Withdrawal Management units at Recovery Place in Auburn
- Provide feedback and recommendations to care team regarding behavioral aspects of Patient interdisciplinary care plans and patient service improvements
- Assist in the detection and proactive intervention with patients at-risk for behavioral Escalation
- Conduct front-line patient care to include the taking and recording of pertinent medical Information as delegate by nursing staff, to include vital signs, blood pressure, Temperature.
- Assisting clients with basic activities of daily living tasks, supervising bathing, toileting, dish Washing cooking.
- Observe and influence patient's behavior with therapeutic interventions in the milieu by Means of conflict resolution, communicating and interacting, initiating therapeutic Activities, and utilizing varietal non-violent de-escalation skills.
- Assisting nurses with admissions and discharge processes and inter facility transfers to Include belongings inventory, transmission and gathering of records, compiling patient Charts, assisting patients as delegated.
- Provide 1:1 sitting for patients who are behaviorally escalated, have a history of behavioral Concerns, who are attending court on-site, and/or who are currently in seclusion and/or Restraint
