...to me. My path way to my career will start with a CNA program and work my way up to an RN. In a nut shell a CNA helps the elderly people and the RN helps anyone in a hospital, local or private, physician's office, and nursing care facilities. I enjoy helping people and being there for the needy; therefore, a CNA and RN will greatly be in my career path. Looking forward to my future career as a CNA to start out with at North Idaho College, then going to Lewis and Clark State College be become an RN. I am going to go to school to become a Certified Nurse Assistant at North Idaho College. I am interested in the health and wellness of people. I would love to help people get better and stay healthy. Our elders need our help, and I am willing to help them to the best of my abilities. The three main skills needed are assistance, procedural and safety skills. Assistance skills help with patients that have memory loss, confusion and trouble understanding aspects of care. Procedural skills are about the body, foods and charting. Safety skills help with the handling, washing, cleaning, and disasters (“CNA Certification”). In my life I already have experience with those skills and more due to my mother and family ties into nursing. In every job there are steps to get in and do it right. There is a 48 hour of online school, in class sections for three months, CPR, clinical experience in care facilities and a final exam to become a CNA (“Nursing Assistant Training”). On top of that one...
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...position is the CNA position. At Greenbloom we like to maintain a strict standard of the best level of service for our customers. Designing and utilizing the best tools to select the proper candidates for the CNA position at Greenbloom is critical to keeping to our mission of providing the best service on every level to our patients. This document will explore the various tools that will be utilized to select candidates. Executive Summary The purpose of this document is to explain the tools and selection processes supporting our company’s mission of providing the best healthcare services available. Our core beliefs in this mission dictate the necessity of selecting the right tools to recruit the best. The CNA position’s selection tools include a comprehensive benefits package, fair pay, incentives, internal and external recruitment procedures, in-depth job description, analysis of viability for teamwork in the position, job functions, interview questions designed to find personnel with the right personalities to fit into our organizational culture, training proposal for advancement, and orientation for new hires that underlines our core beliefs and expectations of professional behavior from all employees. All of these tools have been carefully chosen to help attract and retain the best of the talent available. First we will explore a Job Analysis for the CNA position with a Powerpoint presentation. Slide 1 Locating the information for the job expectation of the CNA position can...
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...Health Care Interview Amanda Nava HCS/235 February 26, 2013 Jennifer Hitt Health Care Interview For my health care interview assignment I chose to interview Mayra Cruz, Certified Nurses Assistant. She works at Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice at 1617 E. Missouri Ave, El Paso, Texas. In my interview with her she described her job duties, her patients and how she interacts with others in her environment. In addition, she identified the length of time she has been in her current position, her career path that has led her to this position as well as her experience in the health care industry. Her education and what requirements were necessary for her certification. She also wonders if the education she received proper and adequately prepared for her position. Conclusively, she have me her recommendations for the educational preparation necessary to become a CNA and she discussed the necessary attributes for success in a career as a CAN. Finally, she described her role in the context of a broader healthcare industry. Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice is set in El Paso, Texas. Their hospice team consists of the patient’s physician, nurses, social worker, home health aides, clergy, therapists, and trained volunteers. Together this team provides comprehensive palliative care aimed to relieving symptoms and giving social, emotional, and spiritual support. Mayra’s customers at Cuidado Casero Home health and Hospice are patients that are dying and suffering...
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...profit. Revenue means keeping beds full. Another role of manger is creating budgets that include things like payroll; supplies, maintenance, activities, and kitchen just to name a few. Other roles of managers, are setting up meetings internally and externally. Keeping up with new state laws, and the requirements of state and federal Medicare and Medicaid laws. Of the four areas the one that is the most important would be organizing. Without the best organization which means simple things like delegating, coordination and implementing plans. Management must be able to handle change and have plans to handle all situations that can happen with many solutions to problems. In my current job I am team lead CNA. I am the one CNA the is accountable to make sure that my team does there assigned job duties. I attend all staff meeting and report back to all aides to make sure that we are all on the same page. This includes other meetings that required by my administrator. I am in a supervisor position that requires mentoring. I think that the one thing I would like to take away for this course is to learn better ways to delegate responsibility. I have found not that do not trust others to do a good job but that I am the first to volunteer to things. I need...
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...Career Information | Career Path Working after high school Career Certified Nursing Assistant | Career Path Working after College Career Registered Nurse | Job description (including daily responsibilities) | Provide patient care Document actions Serves and protects hospital Updates job knowledge | Working with a variety of patients, from pediatric to geriatric, or specializing in one of numerous possible areas such as neo-natal intensive care, cardiac care, neurologic care or dermatology Observing and recording patient behavior Consulting with physicians and other healthcare professionals Establishing treatment plans, operating medical equipment Supervising licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and certified nurse assistants (CNAs) | Requirements for path (school, military, training, age, location, skills, etc.) | get certified in nursing assistant during high school | Nursing program RN-to-BSN ADN’s program National RN test | Salary/benefits information | $23,000 Medical benefits (dental, vision, life insurance) | Medical Benefits, including coverage for medical, dental and vision. Paid Vacations Retirement through 401(k) and 403(b) plans Pensions Registered nurses, or RNs, averaged $33.23 per hour, or $69,110 per year, as of May 2011, states the Bureau of Labor Statistics. High salaries ranged from above $46.46 per hour, or $96,630 per year, but could fall to less than...
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...specific to the nursing process. Some examples are Patient satisfaction, Nurse Satisfaction, and quality of care (Medscape). The structure of nursing care can be reflected by the nurse/patient ratio and staffing needs and also by the education of that nursing staff. Process indicators are those such as nursing assessment, those interventions set into play as well as how satisfied an RN is with his/her job. Nursing sensitive patient outcomes are those that improve because of a higher quality of nursing care (Nursing). There are many ways in which an understanding of nursing sensitive indicators could assist the nurses in this scenario. Firstly, I believe education to be the main issue. Everyone who provides patient care must be aware of all nursing sensitive indicators and what impact it can have on patient outcomes. If the CNA was aware of the risk of pressure ulcers with the use of restraints, she could have informed the nurse and possibly prevented this from happening by performing more focused skin assessments and making sure the patient was turned every two hours. The CNA was too quick to dismiss the concerns of the patient’s daughter. As far as the patient’s diet goes, the Nursing Supervisor should have never told her staff to “just keep it quiet”. That in itself was...
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...Where Are Nurses In the Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities? Assisted living facilities, one of the fastest growing housing options for older adults, represents a potentially new employment option for RN’s. When most people think of nursing homes, they think about nurses being responsible for the patients. However, most nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the United States do not have any RN’s employed. Most assisted living facilities have LPN’s, medical technicians, and certified nursing assistants. Why are there no nurses in nursing homes/ assisted living facilities? “Slightly fewer than 1 million people age 65 or older live in an estimated 33,000 assisted living facilities, private or shared units.”(Kovner) All assisted living facilities provide congregated meals, laundry and housekeeping services, and some social activities; all assisted living facilities provide health monitoring and assistance with activities of daily living (ADL’s). “Approximately 60% of residents need assistance with one to three ADLs; 75% need assistance with medications.”(Kovner) “Current estimates suggest that 50% of residents in assisted living have Alzheimer’s or Dementia, and the number is expected to grow.”(Kovner) Many assisted living facilities have a special locked down unit for residents with Alzheimer’s or Dementia. On average a nursing assistant will have 14-30 residents to tend to. This means making sure everyone is checked on every hour, changed, and making sure...
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...and a full time respiratory therapists. The facility try to make it to make the patients stay as comfortable as possible. The resident are allowed to bring personal item such as picture, furniture and any memorabilia they choose. The facility offers Private room, Cable TV, a game room, they have the resident eat in the dining room at least once a week also they offer services such as a beauty salon and barbershop. They even have a chapel for resident. Targeted Department The targeted department is the certified nurse’s aide department where the resident need the most assistance: All of the employees are trained in first aid and CPR. The CNA department has the largest amount of employees. Princeton Place want to make sure that the resident are well taken care of. So to provided excellent care to their resident they have a large number of CNA on staff. Interviewee I interview Marc Martinez he is only 25 years old but it seem to me that he has already live a life time. See Marc was raised by his grandmother. A few years...
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...As I began my job search, I came across your job opening for a registered nurse in postpartum. It quickly captured my attention, as it’s the job I have been looking for. I graduated with my associate’s degree in nursing from Glendale Community College on May 10, 2016. I obtained my licensure on June 23, 2016. I understand Banner requires a BSN to be hired as a RN; therefore to satisfy this requirement, I have enrolled at Grand Canyon University for the BSN program. I have nine years of hospital experience as a PCT/CNA, eight of those years have been in postpartum at Banner Estrella. I am bilingual in English and Spanish. I have a strong desire and determination to continue my education. I have great customer service skills and I’m self-motivated....
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...Health Care Interview For my health care interview assignment I chose to interview Mayra Cruz, Certified Nurses Assistant. She works at Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice at 1617 E. Missouri Ave, El Paso, Texas. In my interview with her she described her job duties, her patients and how she interacts with others in her environment. In addition, she identified the length of time she has been in her current position, her career path that has led her to this position as well as her experience in the health care industry. Her education and what requirements were necessary for her certification. She also wonders if the education she received proper and adequately prepared for her position. Conclusively, she have me her recommendations for the educational preparation necessary to become a CNA and she discussed the necessary attributes for success in a career as a CAN. Finally, she described her role in the context of a broader healthcare industry. Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice is set in El Paso, Texas. Their hospice team consists of the patient’s physician, nurses, social worker, home health aides, clergy, therapists, and trained volunteers. Together this team provides comprehensive palliative care aimed to relieving symptoms and giving social, emotional, and spiritual support. Mayra’s customers at Cuidado Casero Home health and Hospice are patients that are dying and suffering from immense pain. They are in the last stages of life. The department...
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...and life role self concepts (Herr et al., 2004). As life takes us for a loop, we will encounter choices that may be difficult to decide upon, but through the process of career development one can make wise career choices. The theory that plays an important role in my life now that I have experienced the workforce and school is the Krumboltz's Social Learning and Planned Happenstance. This theory address factors related to my experiences with others and in previous work situations. Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves. One aspect of Social Cognitive Career Theory addresses the fact that we are likely to consider continuing a particular job if we have had a positive experience doing it. In this way, we can concentrate on areas in which we have had proven success and...
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...had a nursing home stay in 2006. They go on to say, there are approximately 16,000 nursing homes and about 1.7 million nursing home beds in the United States. While only twelve percent of nursing home residents are between the ages of 64-74, 45% are over 85 years of age. It is estimated that anyone over 65 years of age will have a 43% chance of spending some time in a nursing home (Kemper and Murtaugh, 1991) and about 24 % of these individuals will spend less than a year in residence at a nursing home (CDC, 2012). The key employees of the nursing home that have the most interaction and greatest impact with the residents of nursing homes are the registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and certified nursing assistants (CNAs). For several years the shortage and turnover rate of nursing home staff has long been a serious problem for multiple nursing homes nationwide (Pillemer, et al., 2008). Providing effective and safe quality care in nursing homes requires clinically and interpersonally competent staff. Research findings suggest that inadequate supervisory, managerial, and human resource practices within nursing homes contribute to poor outcomes, including high nursing staff turnover, lower employee satisfaction, and poor clinical outcomes (Anderson, et al 2003). When a staff member leaves an organization, the knowledge, skill and experience that the person has brought to, and gained at, the organization is lost. Although high rates of nursing home...
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...Home Health Aide Job Responsibilities: Enables patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition, providing support and personal services, teaching families. Home Health Aide Job Duties: * Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise. * Supports patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands. * Assists patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming. * Helps patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene. * Helps family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient; advising on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping. * Records patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions. * Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following asepses standards and procedures; maintaining security precautions; following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards; * Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities. * Protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local...
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...Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Science Amanda Peffer Kaplan University A Bachelor’s of Science in Nutrition Science one of the most rapidly advancing areas of focus in the health industry today. This degree is to prepare one to enter an exciting field in which health and the lives of others will be considerably improved through knowledge and skill. If having to chose three other degree programs it would be a Bachelor of Science in Health Science, Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness and an Associate of Applied Science in Health Information Technology. The first choice be chosen would be a Bachelor of Science in Health Science. This program is designed to lead to a health science professional. There are many responsibilities in health science. The key responsibilities include reviewing plans to technical accuracy and make recommendations to higher-level staff; conduct routine sampling and testing; analyze, evaluate and interpret data; write reports; assist in research and compilation of basic information; and assist with preparing for public meetings just to name a few. One has to have excellent oral and written communication skills. They must be good with analyzing information and motivating others. It normally takes 4 years to complete a Bachelor's degree in this field. There is also room for advancement as well. Secondly would be a Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness. This career program is designed to lead to the general description of a health and...
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...ADN versus BSN Beth Ruhland GCU Professional Dynamics NRS430v Rita Borden February 12, 2012 ADN versus BSN Currently, nurses must be able to do more than just follow doctor’s orders and start IVs. They need to be able to think critically, make decisions about patient care, and be prepared to question doctors if their orders appear to be inappropriate, as well as be a teacher to the patient and family. These are all expected of nurses whether they have an ADN or BSN. More often than not, nurses have the same pay and job requirements regardless of the education they have. They must both pass the same NCLEX-RN exam. These are facts that create the question, “why spend the extra time and money?” The Goldmark Report in 1923 was the first to recommend that the entry level of education for professional practice as a registered nurse should be a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN), and heated debate has raged among nurses over the issue ever since. (NursingDeree.net) With a shortage of nurses after World War II, Mildred Montag explored an alternative to four-year university nursing programs. This developed into the now very popular two-year Associates Degree. According to an article in Working Nurse (Hanink, 2012) , The W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded the initial experiments: seven pilot sites in four states, one of them Pasadena City College. Success was almost immediate; from the very beginning, the graduates had pass rates comparable to hospital and BSN...
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