What are the responsibilities and job description for the CNA Hospice Aide position at Guaranteed?
Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier. By blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, we’re here to deliver care how you want it. Guaranteed is backed by some of the best investors in the game (including: BrandProject, Precursor, Springbank Collective, Lakehouse and Cake Ventures) and have raised $6.5 million in seed funding - one of the largest seed rounds for a Black female solo founder.
Our goal is to provide tech-enabled hospice services in a hybrid setting: best in class in-person and telemedicine care. Our care providers are highly-trained healthcare professionals focused on support, comfort, and dignity. We are obsessed with providing for patients and families and want to change the cultural conversation around death.
Who You Are
Summary
We’re seeking an experienced, empathic CNA to fulfill Hospice Aides duties in our growing Care Teams across the Los Angeles Region. The hospice aide will work under the supervision of a registered nurse and performs various services for a patient as necessary to meet the patient's personal needs and to promote comfort.
Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are responsible for providing exceptional care under the direction of a registered nurse. Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are a high-touch and central role that enables us to deliver our promise of excellence in end-of-life care. This role is critical to ensuring that our culture and purpose touches our patients and their friends and families.
Job Responsibilities
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Our goal is to provide tech-enabled hospice services in a hybrid setting: best in class in-person and telemedicine care. Our care providers are highly-trained healthcare professionals focused on support, comfort, and dignity. We are obsessed with providing for patients and families and want to change the cultural conversation around death.
Who You Are
- You are obsessed with patient-experience and delivering excellence in care, support, and comfort through technology.
- You are driven, in work and in life, by your compassion for people.
- You believe the US Healthcare system is deeply problematic and inequitable, and you want to help architect a solution.
- You are always learning new things from your friends, you colleagues, your communities, and the world.
- You thrive when building alongside diverse teams, opinions, and cross-discipline roles.
- You are more than comfortable in a 0 to 1 startup. You manage yourself as well as anyone else and you love iterating quickly.
- We are equally obsessed with patient-experience, and also caregiver-experience, family-experience, and care provider-experience. We strive to support everyone affected by death.
- We are compassionate by nature.
- We dream of healthcare systems that are more equitable and more human - and we work everyday to make them that way.
- Medicine often ignores end of life care - we don’t. We talk about death. We talk about dying, about grief, about losing our patients and losing our loved ones.
- We love teaching what we know and bringing humility to what don’t.
Summary
We’re seeking an experienced, empathic CNA to fulfill Hospice Aides duties in our growing Care Teams across the Los Angeles Region. The hospice aide will work under the supervision of a registered nurse and performs various services for a patient as necessary to meet the patient's personal needs and to promote comfort.
Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are responsible for providing exceptional care under the direction of a registered nurse. Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are a high-touch and central role that enables us to deliver our promise of excellence in end-of-life care. This role is critical to ensuring that our culture and purpose touches our patients and their friends and families.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide palliative care to bed-ridden patients at a private residence
- Provide quality life care to patients and deliver medical supplies
- Assist in activities of daily living and performing homemaking and other environmental services as assigned
- Provide care per written instruction and maintain the record of patient care
- Assist patient with prescribed exercise as instructed per nurse or therapists
- Report any problems and changes in patient condition to the nurse
- Foster cooperative effort among personnel by understanding the functions of other persons involved in patient care and by active participation in team and staff conferences.
- Provide respite for the patient family when on-site as appropriate
- Compassionate warm and accepting attitude towards people
- They need to possess certain skills like personal care expertise, bedside manners, stamina, cope up with distressing situations, emotional stability, and record keeping
- Quick learner, attention to detail, prioritization skill and time management
- Punctual, reliable and must have strong communication skill
- Hearing, eyesight and physical dexterity must be sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the patient's condition and to perform patient care
- Physical activities will include, walking, sitting, stooping, and standing and minimal to maximum lifting of patients and the turning of patients.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 year of experience in a similar field
- Meets training requirements for the State in which you reside
- Completed a minimum of 75 hours of classroom and supervised practical training with at least 16 hours devoted to supervised practical training and with at least 16 hours of classroom instruction completed
- One year experience as a CNA, hospice aide or home health aide
- Must be a licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order
- Require to see hear and speak and use one or both hands
- Current CPR certification
- Utilization of calculator, telephone, copy machine, thermometer, blood pressure cuff, other basic office and medical equipment.
- Sensitivity in handling patient medical records
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