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Certified-Licensed Nursing Assistant - ACU

Location:	Tuba City, AZ Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov
Type:	Tribal
Salary Range:	$17 to $26 / Per Hour
Open Period:	12/22/2023 to 9/29/2024
Summary:	ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY * Excellent Benefits Package LOCATION AND LIFESTYLE: • Live and work on the beautiful Navajo Reservation, near national parks and forests, canyon country, ski area a day trip away • The unique community of Tuba City offers a culturally rich environment and a rewarding career in an underserved area • Easy drive to Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, Snowbowl ski area, Las Vegas • Easy access to hiking, biking, fishing, skiing • Excellent work/life balance • Very close, collaborative professional staff The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation is located in Northeast Arizona on the land known as the Colorado Plateau. This semi-desert landscape varies in elevation from 4,400 in the Little Colorado River Valley to nearly 7,000 feet at Preston Mesa. The unique community of Tuba City offers a culturally rich environment. The Native American tribes located and served here are the Navajo, Hopi, and Southern Paiute. This mixture along with Anglo, Hispanic, and African American employees of the hospital and school systems make a pleasantly diverse community. Responsible for providing nursing care to patients involving standardized procedures requiring knowledge of specific patient conditions and treatments that includes personal care, collection and reporting of vital signs, assisting with procedures, patient charting, and patient teaching under the supervision of Registered Nurses and other medical staff. Assists with patient re-positioning, transporting, dressing/undressing and Activity of Daily Living in accordance with the Nursing Standards of Care and Unit policy. Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
Duties:	1. Responsible for providing direct observation of patients as directed by the nursing plan of care and under supervision of the nursing staff and/or nursing department supervisor. Responsible for assisting nursing staff to create, maintain and provide a safe environment. 2. Explains treatments, observes patients, communicates observations or changes in patient's condition to the appropriate healthcare team members and initiates emergency measures such as basic life. 3. Shares in the responsibility of the initiation and maintenance of clinical records by charting of vital signs, height and weight; intake and output, observations relative to patients' condition and reaction to treatment and nursing care given. 4. Transports patients using a variety of equipment including: wheelchair, stretchers, beds, or other mechanism and assist in patient ambulation. 5. Assists in preparing a patient for procedures that include draping patient for examinations and treatments and remains with patients. May include performing duties such as holding instruments and adjusting lights. 6. Handles multiple duties and tasks like changing bed linens, run errands, direct visitors, and answer telephone. 7. Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, height, weight, pulse and respiration rates, and as directed may collect or transport specimens. 8. Cleans, sterilizes stores, prepares, and issues dressing packs, treatment trays, and other supplies. 9. Follows stringent cleanliness regimes as to preclude the possibilities of infections and other diseases. 10. Practices hand-off communication to the next CNA on shift or to the charge nurse 11. Ensure proper and safe care of patient valuables and clothing, follows the organization's policies and procedures. 12. Maintains positive working relationships with staff and contributes to teamwork within the department. Adheres to TCRHCC mission, goals and policies. 13. Assists in assembling and maintaining adequate supplies and shares in the responsibility for general upkeep of the department equipment and supplies. 14. Demonstrates appropriate uses of equipment, materials, and supplies during nursing care of patient. 15. Attends all mandatory in-services and department meetings as required and scheduled. 16. Performs other duties as assigned and float to other units. Additional Duties for Inpatient Units: 17. Answers call lights or intercom system promptly to determine and assist with patients' needs; reports any abnormal findings or complaints to charge nurse. 18. Assists patients with meal by direct feeding or bring tray to them and set up. 19. Turns, repositions, or assist in bathroom/toileting of bedrest patients. 20. Understand and practice preventive measures of bedsores of all patients. 21. Initiates recreational activities, such as assisting with outdoor ambulation or deliver reading material to patients. 22. Responsible for electronic health records data entry pertinent to patient service role 23. Performs other duties as assigned and float to other units.
Qualifications:	Education: • Must have a high school diploma or GED Certification/Licensure: The candidates may be CNA, RNA & or LNA • Must have and maintain a current, active, and unrestricted Certification as a Nursing Assistant from the State of Arizona • Must have and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by the American Heart Association Experience: Adult Care Unit (ACU): Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Clinical Courses
Work Type:	Permanent, Full
Announcement #:	2023 - 1108
Who May Apply?	All Groups of Qualified Individuals
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