Location: Palos Park,IL, USA
Basic Function
To provide assigned residents with routine daily nursing care in accordance with established nursing care procedures, state and federal guidelines, and as directed by your supervisor.
Essential Duties
1. Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
2. Assist residents with dressing and ensure that dependent residents are dressed in clean clothing appropriate for season and in good repair.
3. Give or assist resident with bathing.
4. Assist residents with daily dental and mouth care.
5. Keep incontinent residents clean, dry and odor free; check every two hours to maintain.
6. Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions.
7. Position residents maintaining good body alignment.
8. Keep residents dry, changing clothes and gowns when wet or soiled.
9. Make beds and change bed linens when soiled.
10. Shave male patients daily and female residents as needed.
11. Keep residents finger and toenails clean and trimmed.
12. Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
13. Assist resident with hair combing and brushing, shampooing and styling.
14. Assist residents in preparing for activity and social programs and transport, accompany and participate when assigned.
15. Maintain records accurately and timely.
16. Chart timely and accurately in Point of Care (if applicable).
17. Measure and record T, P, R, and weights as instructed.
18. Observe and report the presence of skin breakdown or redness to the nurse.
19. Observe and report any physical or emotional changes observed in the residents including any complaints or grievances made by the resident.
20. Prepare resident for meals, assist serving food trays or feed as necessary and record/or report residents intake or acceptance of food.
21. Serve between meal and bedtime snacks or nourishments.
22. Attend all mandatory in-services and maintain 12 hours of training each year.
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