Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide (Hospice)

Lutheran Sunset Ministries in Clifton, TX, is hiring for a compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)/Home Health Aide for Hospice Sunset.

This is a PRN position. 

Job Duties:

• Carries out health care tasks under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse and in accordance with the Plan of Care developed by the IDT and ordered by the physician.
• Participates as possible in the IDT
• Assists with the patient’s personal grooming including care of hair, nails, teeth, mouth, dressing and shaving
• Gives full or partial bath in bed, tub or shower
• Assists patient on and off the bedpan, commode or toilet
• Assists the patient in walking and in moving from the bed to the chair or wheelchair
• Take temperature, pulse and check respiration and blood pressure when assigned
• Keep simple records for documentation
• Report a change in condition or status immediately to RN or LVN
• Tidy the patient’s room/care area
• Make and change the patient’s bed
• Maintain open communication with the patient, family, staff and other responsible persons
• Attend staff development programs as necessary and appropriate
• If trained, assist the patient with special exercises, measure intake and output
• Assist with prescribed skin care

• One-year full-time experience in direct patient care in an institutional setting such as a hospital or nursing home, OR
• One-year full-time experience within the last five years in direct patient care in an agency setting, OR
• Satisfactorily complete an approved training and competency evaluation program, OR
• Satisfactorily completes an approved competency evaluation, OR
• Provides appropriate documentation that he/she is a student in a nursing program and possesses basic nursing skills in accordance with the school’s curriculum
• Be on the Texas Department of Human Services Nurse Aide Registry with no finding against the aide relating to client abuse or neglect or misappropriation or client property
• Must have a demonstrated sympathetic attitude toward the care of the sick

• High school diploma desirable
• Ability to read, speak and write English sufficiently to safely understand instructions and be safely understood
• Must complete as least twelve hours of continuing education each year