Job Description
Certified nursing assistants offer essential care in hospitals by monitoring patient vitals and assisting with daily needs to support healing processes. They navigate busy wards where empathy and precision ensure patient comfort during recovery stages.
Coast Plaza Hospital delivers medical services in Norwalk, California, providing emergency care and specialized treatments. The facility employs hundreds of staff across departments like nursing and diagnostics, focusing on community health.
Aides perform activities of daily living such as bathing patients using basins and towels, turning residents in beds for pressure relief, and feeding meals via trays. They record vital signs with blood pressure cuffs and thermometers into electronic records, administer glucose tests using glucometers, and monitor dietary restrictions by checking meal labels. Shift tasks include restocking unit supplies in cabinets, checking equipment function like wheelchairs, and communicating updates via whiteboards. They collaborate with nurses during transfers to rooms, using AIDET scripts for introductions.
Hourly rates start at $21.21 to $31.18, with overtime after 8 hours averaging $24.75 to $36.38. Full-time positions require 12-hour day shifts, including weekends. Benefits include paid holidays, vacation time, sick leave, medical insurance, dental coverage, vision plans, life insurance, and retirement plans with matches.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate proficiency in providing safe, effective patient care including ADLs, mobility, and safety concerns
- Accurately document pertinent patient information including vital signs, intake and output, height and weight, and other care observations
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients
- Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure appropriate diet
- Accurately obtain and record in EMR results of glucose monitoring and ACT Plus analyzer, accurately run controls on glucometer and ACT Plus analyzers, and document QC appropriately
- Performs tasks delegated timely and documents in timely and accurate manner
- Unit stock and maintenance duties established by the department
- Assist in daily checks of equipment in the department and assure function and replacement status
- Use clear, concise, professional communication with coworkers, patients, all customers internal and external
- Use AIDET in interactions with patients and family members, utilize whiteboards for patient communication
- Collaborate across disciplines to assist in coordination of patient care, including transfers, discharge, referrals, sponsorship support needs
- Act with a sense of urgency performing tasks
- Basic unit/department maintenance such as keeping files, drawers, cabinets free from unnecessary clutter
- Report on any equipment or environmental issues for repair
- Abide by HIPAA regulations
- Utilize SBAR when communicating with oncoming shift, physician communication and giving report to ancillary or other nursing services
- Speak up to stop the line and escalate potential safety events if necessary
- Complete and attend monthly training assigned
- May float to other areas of the hospital as needed
Requirements
- At least six months prior experience as a CNA within the hospital setting preferred
- Critical thinking, service excellence and good interpersonal communication skills
- A capacity to learn, synthesize, make critical judgments, work independently, place patients and families first, and collaborate with the team members