Certified Nursing Assistant
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree: Certificate.
- Education: Completion of a certified nursing assistant program.
- Certification: Possess and maintain certification as a certified nursing assistant.
- Experience: One year of experience as a certified nursing assistant after graduation.
Core Duties:
- Prepare examination rooms prior to patient’s arrival.
- Assist with patient check-ins, admissions, discharges, and transfers as directed.
- Check patient’s vital signs, to include temperature, respiration, pulse, weight and blood pressure.
- Obtain and document patient’s current medical history, drug history, chief complaints, allergies and vital signs on the correct form.
- Perform diagnostic procedures when ordered.
- Maintain examination room stock levels and perform routine maintenance of examination rooms.
- Complete lab and x-ray requisitions in accordance with clinic policies.
- Enter demographic data into the computer upon patient check-in; enter diagnosis and departing time when patient is released.
