NURSING ASST (CERT)

Responsibilities

Serves as an active member of the clinical staff; maintains a therapeutic relationship with all patients; assists in maintenance of a safe, clean, therapeutic environment; assures patient participation in program activities; and performs technical/patient care duties relative to patient's health and safety.

Qualifications

A current C.N.A. certificate is required. A minimum of 1 year experience with psychiatric or addiction patients preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Licensure, Training & Travel Requirements

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write documentation of patients behavior, document clinical records that include Q15 quality checks, and routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving acute mental health patients and verbally de-escalate patients and remain calm in stressful situations.
• Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients and communicate these concerns to other treatment staff members.
• Obtain vital signs, administer Oxygen, administer UDS test, administer UCG test, and perform ECG testing only when specifically trained.
• Assist in all patient's Activity of Daily Living.
• Regularly required to stand for long periods of time, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long periods of time, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary. May be exposed to second hand smoke during smoke break time with patients. May be exposed to weather conditions including heat outdoors while monitoring patients. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.