CNA**for our new NW Specialty Hospital** Adult Psych Unit, Part Time Days

Job Description

Responsibilities

Northwest Specialty Hospital, an extension of Northern Nevada Medical Center , brings expanded services to a new building located at 5 Sharlands Ave. in Northwest Reno. The facility will offer adult behavioral health services.

The adult behavioral health services offered is an expansion to our current and older program at NNMC. The new program will offer behavioral health services to all adults years and older. The department is managed through a multidisciplinary team including physicians, nurses, CNAs, social workers, and therapists. Patients will experience an individualized care plan, inclusive of individual and family therapy, activities, medication management, and a -hour secure, compassionate environment.

What we at Northwest Specialty Hospital value:
• Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
• Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
• Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
• Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
• Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
• Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
• Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.

This CNA opportunity is part time at hours per week, offers full benefits and a convenient day shift schedule. We are looking for a dynamic CNA to provide safe, competent nursing assistant care for our patients.You will also provide professional support to the healthcare team. The concepts of Patient Centered Care will provide the foundation for all nursing care. Demonstrates Service Excellence standards at all times.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Completes Bedside shift report in the room at the beginning and end of each shift. Ensures patient is provided with the names and contact numbers for members of the care team on the communication board every shift.
• Meets with Supervising RN at the beginning of each shift to receive delegation of tasks.
• Involves the patient and family psychosocial, spiritual, emotional, population specific, and diversity needs in care.
• Follows facility policies and procedures to promote patient safety (i.e. safe environment, equipment safety practices, radiation safety, fire prevention, etc.).
• Adheres to fall precautions by performing/assisting patients with toileting/ADL care and never leaving the patient alone. If assistance is needed, CNA is able to ask/call or help while remaining with the patient.

About Universal Health Services:

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited C.N.A program
• Current Nevada C.N.A. license or
• Current BLS certificate.