Certified Nurse Assistant

About Connect to Work AZ:

Connect to Work AZ supports the unemployed and underemployed Arizonans by connecting them to quality jobs through our partnership with Skills for America’s Future (Skills).

Across Arizona, people look for jobs and employers seek qualified talent. Often, they struggle to connect. But those connections are made when they use Connect to Work AZ, powered by Skills, a jobs-first program through the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation. Now even more of our Arizona neighbors can get the connections and support they need to secure quality jobs.

By focusing on Arizona’s ready-to-work talent, this program will connect the job seeker with local companies that are eager to hire. This inclusive hiring approach has been proven to be both efficient and effective at getting more unemployed and underemployed people into jobs.

About Dignity Health:

From one hospital in 1854 to forty-one hospitals today, plus many more neighborhood clinics and care centers, Dignity Health has always remained focused on the compassionate care it brings to its communities.

Values:

• Compassion
  • Care with listening, empathy, and love
  • Accompany and comfort those in need of healing.
• Inclusion
  • Celebrate each person’s gifts and voice.
  • Respect the dignity of all.
• Integrity
  • Inspire trust through honesty.
  • Demonstrate courage in the face of iniquity.
• Excellence
  • Serve with fullest passion, creativity, and stewardship.
  • Exceed expectations of other and ourselves
• Collaboration
  • Commit to the power of working together.
  • Build and nurture meaningful relationships.

Job Description:

The Certified Nurse Assistant performs direct patient care, such as: bathing, oral care, feeding, ambulation, and vital signs. Other duties may include inventory, documentation, clerical, dietary, light-housekeeping, and computer input.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma/GED
• Completion of CNA program
• CNA registration/license BCLS (Basic Cardiac Life Support) Certification

Responsibilities:

• Assists with patient admission, discharge, and transfer.
• Collects laboratory specimens according to hospital protocol, maintaining hospital standard of ZERO TOLERANCE for mislabeled specimens.
• Assists the nurse/physician during examinations, treatments and procedures as requested.
• Retrieves necessary equipment and supplies.
• Assists in patient/equipment preparation.
• Performs follow-up actions as directed.
• Documents clinically relevant findings in the patient’s record according to hospital protocols.
• Monitors and records patient vital signs, weight, positioning, ADL’s, I&O, activity and blood glucose readings per RN instructions, hospital protocols, and standards of care and notifies.
• RN/physician of abnormalities.
• Records readings in an accurate and timely manner.
• Completes hospital forms per protocol.