Long Term Care Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)

We are Grace.

Grace Federal Solutions' greatest success is the employees of Grace. At Grace, we recognize the significant role each Grace employee plays in helping to grow and transform the company. Grace follows 5 principles: client service, purpose, mutual respect, collaboration, and accountability. To build the best healthcare services company that includes support services, consulting services, project management, information technology, data modernization, and talent acquisition; we need the nation's most interesting and talented people. 

Grace Federal Solutions is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) who is passionate about their work and dedicated to making a difference in the lives of others. Our ideal candidate would possess excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and commitment to delivering high-quality healthcare.
 

Overview

• Start Date: 11/25/24-2/22/25
• Duration: 13 weeks
• Shift: Days (7a-7p)  ; Every Other Holiday; Every Other Weekend ; No On Call

Role 

This is a contract on-site role for a Certified Nursing Assistant. The Certified Nursing Assistant is responsible for observing, collecting, and documenting patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.

Job Description 
Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
-In the psychiatric setting, aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.
-Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge.
-Provides care/ treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, the measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive patient and family interactions.
-Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.
-Provides indirect care to patients and assigned area to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, changing linens, re-stocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/ supplies/ specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.
-Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions.
-Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.

•  Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.
  -Six (6) months of relevant nursing assistant experience, which may include a nursing assistant course.
• High School Diploma or GED
• Listed as a Nursing Assistant I in the North Carolina Health Care Personnel Registry with no substantiated findings.
  -Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.