Certified Nursing Assistant: CNA at Kendal At Oberlin in Oberlin, Ohio

Job Description:

Kendal at Oberlin is a full-service life plan community which primarily serves older adults in the Quaker tradition. Residents are assured a lifetime of healthcare including short-and long-term nursing services, memory care and assisted living. Equally important, residents enjoy an independent, enriching living experience. 

Kendal at Oberlin's Nursing Department is currently seeking caring and compassionate Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) for various 8 and 12 hour shifts. The Certified Nursing Assistant will provide our Assisted Living residents high quality, person-centered care by providing physical and psycho-social support as a member of the interdisciplinary team working closely with residents, families and staff. The CNA assists in providing an engaging therapeutic living environment for those individuals with cognitive impairment. Additionally, the role will be responsible for including, but not limited to:

• Providing physical support for residents with Activities of daily living (ADLs), showers, baths.


• Answering resident calls and determining how best to help them.


• Ensuring residents receive an appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences.


• Measuring and recording food and liquid intake and urinary and fecal output and reporting changes to nursing staff.


• Recording vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate as requested by nursing team.


• Ability to think and work independently and with direction and communicate with staff members in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.


• Proper use of mechanical lifts.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Successful completion of an approved nursing assistant program. 


• Must be able to bend, stoop, push, pull, lift, transfer residents weighing 50 to 250 pounds. 


• Must be capable of clearly communicating with residents. 


• Must be able to reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

Licenses & Certifications

Required

• Certified Nurse Assistant

Behaviors

Required

• Loyal: Shows firm and constant support to a cause


• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well


• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group


• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest


• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

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