CNA Days

🌟 Join the Award-Winning Team at Anchor Post Acute! 🌟 📍 Anchor Post Acute is a beautiful 120-bed skilled nursing & rehab facility conveniently located behind Aiken Mall in Aiken, SC. We're proud to have been recognized as Aiken's Choice Award Winner for Top Skilled Nursing Facility! 🏆💙 Do you have a passion for caring for others? ❤️ Are you looking for a workplace where you can truly make a difference every day? At Anchor Post Acute, we cherish the relationships we build with our residents, families, coworkers, and community. We believe in creating a warm, supportive environment where everyone feels at home. 🏡✨ 🩺 Now Hiring: Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) 🩺 💰 What We Offer: ✨ $15-$19/hour based on experience ☀️ $4 / hour Shift Differential for Saturday and Sunday (7a-7p) ⏰ 12-Hour Shifts Available Days: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM 💙 Excellent Healthcare Benefits (Full-Time) 💰 401(k) with Company Match (Full-Time) 🏋️ Gym Membership & Weight-Loss Program Reimbursement (Full-Time) 🎓 Tuition Reimbursement to Help Grow Your Career (Full-Time) 🌟 Supportive Team Environment & Opportunities for Advancement ✅ What You'll Need: ✔️ ACTIVE South Carolina Nurse Aide Certification ✔️ Graduate of an Accredited Nurse Assistant Program ✔️ Current CPR Certification ✔️ High School Diploma or Equivalent ❤️ What You'll Do: As a CNA, you'll provide compassionate, hands-on care to our residents by assisting with daily nursing care and services according to each resident's individualized care plan. Your kindness, patience, and dedication will help make every day brighter for those we serve. 🌼🤗 If you're ready to join an award-winning team that values compassion, teamwork, and excellence in care, we'd love to meet you! 💙✨ Apply today and become part of the Anchor Post Acute family! 🏡🎉 General Purpose The primary purpose of your job position is to provide each of your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the resident’s assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors. Essential Duties • Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary. • Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information. • Report all changes in the resident’s condition to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse as soon as practical. • Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner. • Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur. • Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator. • Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility’s information system. • Perform only those nursing care procedures that you have been trained to do. • Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.). • Greet residents and escort them to their room. • Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate. • Make resident comfortable. • Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed. • Store resident’s clothing. • Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged. • Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area. • Assist with loading/unloading residents’ to/from vehicles as necessary. • Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift. • Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services. • Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident. • Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed. • Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids. • Make beds as instructed. • Put extra covers on beds as requested. • Measure and record temperatures, pulses, and respirations (TPRs) of residents, as instructed. Weigh and measure residents as instructed. • Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. • Answer resident calls promptly. • Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met. • Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.). • Record the resident’s food/fluid intake. Report changes in the resident’s eating habits to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse. • Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident. • Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.). • Participate in and receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty. • Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors. • Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks. • Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents. • Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work. • Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents. • Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary). • Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled). • Assi