CNA

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 347-bed, acute care, nonprofit, community hospital located in San Bernardino, California. Known for its programs in maternity care and pediatrics, behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children, the hospital also includes inpatient and outpatient surgery. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/san-bernardino for more information.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Nursing Assistant, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.

Every day, you will directly support patients with tasks such as personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding, while also assisting nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and preparing patient rooms.

Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.

• Communicates, records, and reports promptly to the licensed nursing personnel vitals, treatment results, changes in patients condition, observations, patient complaints, and other pertinent information regarding the patient.
• Checks and repositions all immobile and incontinent residents at a minimum of every two hours providing needed incontinent care promptly as required by assigned unit.
• Promptly answers call lights and responds to alarms and patients requests.
• Follow-up on patient care responsibilities and assignments left from previous shift and reports to team leader any incomplete assignments to ensure continuity of care.
• Performs direct patient care activities for specific patient population according to established policies and procedures; adapts techniques to unique needs of each patient.
• Accurately places electrodes and activates telemetry monitoring, as assigned. Respond to request for telemetry/lead troubleshooting whether that of assigned patient or not.

Required

• Successful completion of a CaliforniaState Approved Nursing Assistantprogram with a Certified Nurse Assistant(CNA) certificate
• Three(3) months experience performing ADL’s(Activities of Daily Living) in a healthcarefacility, including but not limited to home health, hospice, SNF, Rehab and acute care
• Active Certified Nursing Assistant certification issued by the state of California
• AHA Basic Life Support card

Preferred

• Experience as a Certified Nurse Assistant(CNA) at an accredited acute care hospitalor health care facility