WI3666815

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Unspecified

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JOB REQUIREMENTS: Overview Cares for patients in the skilled nursing
facility settings under direction of nursing staff, by performing the
following duties, supporting the nursing philosophy. May include
weekends, holidays, day, evening, night, and/or on-call hours.
Responsibilities Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provides resident
care as assigned and per individual resident routine, according to
standards of care, under CMS Federal and State Regulations for Skilled
Nursing Facilities, and facility policies and procedures. The ability to
identify and document in the medical record the resident\'s usual and
current cognitive patterns, mood and behavior, and whether these present
a risk to the resident or others, identifying and documenting how the
resident typically displays personal distress such as anxiety or
fatigue, recognizing a change in the resident and the resident\'s
functioning and the ability to describe and report such changes to the
nurse such as negative verbalizations and vocalizations, facial
expressions of grimacing, frowning, or fright, changes in gait, skin
color, vital signs, behaviors such as resisting care, distressed pacing,
irritability, depressed mood, and or decreased participation in usual
physical and/or social activities, loss of function or inability to
perform Activities of Daily Living, difficulty eating or loss of
appetite and difficulty sleeping according to CMS RAI requirements.
Performs and documents daily range of motion exercises, assisting the
resident to transfer from bed to wheelchair, assisting residents daily
with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers and ambulating through the
facility, toileting, and eating. Assists residents to attend activities
of their choice Grooming residents as they wish to be groomed (e.g.,
removal of facial hair for women, maintaining the resident\'s personal
preferences regarding hair length/style, facial hair for men, and
clothing style.) The ability to describe the care, services and expected
outcomes of care they provide; have knowledge of the care and services
provided by therapists; have an understanding of the expected outcomes
of this care and understand the relationship to the care they provide.
The ability to identify and document , to the extent possible, factors
that may underlie the resident\'s expressions of distress, as well as
applying knowledge of lifelong patterns, preferences, and interests for
daily activities to enhance quality of life and individualize routine
care. The ability to identifying and understanding that the resident
with dementia may be responding predictably given the situation or
surrounding. For example, being awakened in the middle of the night in
his/her bedroom by staff and not recognizing the staff could elicit an
aggressive response. Matching activities for a resident with\... For
full info follow application link. EOE&AA/M/F/Vet/Disabled. Mercy is an
equal employment opportunity employer functioning under Affirmative
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