Job Title: Certified Nurse Assistant - Inpatient
Location: Charleston, SC 29401
Shift: 12-hour shifts(Alternate weekend)
Duration: 3 Months to long term
Role & Responsibilities:
- Performs a range of personal nursing care which includes feeding, walking, lifting, turning patients, providing related hygiene care to patients using specialized equipment receiving oxygen or suction therapy.
- Performs a range of diagnostic support duties which include taking, recording, and reporting to the nurse deviations in vital signs and changes in patients' condition such as diabetic, uremic coma, insulin shock, gastro-intestinal hemorrhage and reporting them to the nurse or doctor.
- Assists the doctor in a variety of diagnostic examinations such as lumbar punctures, liver biopsy, bone marrow examinations and emergency procedures.
- Assembles necessary equipment and positions patients, collects, labels and transports specimens to the laboratory.
- Checks patients frequently during and following procedures for changes in patient's condition.
- Escorts patients to and from diagnostic studies.
- Cleans and cares for equipment used in oxygen and suction therapy, frame beds and reports equipment in need of repair.
- Performs a range of treatment procedures that include changing simple dressings. Cares for patients with infection, communicable diseases, and those in infection isolation.
- Cares for patients receiving oxygen via cannula or mask as well as venti-mask, patients with chest therapy and postural drainage. Cares for patients with condom catheters as well as indwelling Foley catheters.
- Administers basic life support measures.
- Verbally provides information to the nurse for inclusion in the Nursing Care Plans. Documents vital signs.
- Enters information about the patients' condition in the patients' chart. Assists with completion of patients' admission history.
- The Contract Nurse Assistant will conduct inventories upon admissions and as needed to include, but not limited to, contraband search, ongoing evaluations of the environment of care
- Provide 1:1 care as a Patient Safety Partner as needed on and off the unit.
- Accompany and/or transport patients to appointments/procedures as necessary.
- Performs EKGs as requested.
- Obtains and records temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respirations, pulse oximetry, height, weight, I&O's, and blood sugar for all patients according to providers orders and reporting all abnormalities immediately to RN.
Documents Required:
- Active SC CNA License
- BLS/CPR certification.
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22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
Pay Rate: $19 - $22/hour w2
Jan 20, 2026