Job Description
This position requires certification as a New York State Certified Nursing Assistant.
Under direct clinical supervision, performs the following duties:
- Changes simple dressings, gives enemas, douches, and irrigations as directed.
- Applies abdominal "T” binders, hot water bottles, aqua "K” pads, ice bags, and coolers, and hot and cold compresses to patients as directed.
- Assists patients in collecting urine and stool specimens.
- Observes and records patients' quantitative food and fluid intake and waste output.
- Takes temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate.
- Gives therapeutic baths such as sitz and fever sponge baths.
- Measures and records height and weight.
- Inspects functioning oxygen therapy equipment including tents, masks, and cannulae to ensure appropriate functioning.
- Recognizes and reports abnormal signs and ...