Certified Nursing Assistant, Home Health

**Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first**

**Flexible service area options available Old Saybrook to Griswold**

A **Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)** :

+ Provides direct patient care to patient under direction of the RN and according to the Aide Plan of Care (POC).
+ Correctly assists the patient with self-administered medications by opening bottle caps for the patient, reading medication labels to the patient, checking the dose being self-administered against the prescribed dose on the container label and observing the patient takes the medication
+ Consistently takes accurate temperature, pulse and blood pressure measurements and recognizes and reports abnormal results to supervisor
+ Helps patient maintain good personal hygiene by performing or supervising bathing, grooming, skin care, shaving, oral care, nail/foot care and other activities
+ Assists in feeding patients. Is able to communicate basic principles of nu...