All Your Needs. All Our Hearts.

Friendship Village located in the city of Dayton, Ohio offers Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Short-term Rehabilitation, and Long-term Care. This campus offers care for 506 residents and patients who rely on us for life enrichment and quality of care.

We offer an array of employment opportunities for all types of professional interests. We offer competitive wages and benefits, tuition assistance and professional advancement programs.

We are currently seeking a State Tested Nursing Assistant for our 506 bed campus. The community describes Friendship Village as being the ‘Friendliest Place on Earth’, and we’re honored to serve every one of our 506 residents with the most compassionate care for over 40 years.

Come join our enthusiastic team! It’s not just our promise, it’s our passion.

6a-6p and 6p-6a Shifts Available

Purpose of Your Job Position

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide each of your assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with the resident’s assessment and care plan, and as may be directed by your supervisors.

Essential Job Functions

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor.
• Report known or suspected incidents of fraud to the Administrator.
• Ensure that departmental computer workstations left unattended are properly logged off or the password protected automatic screen-saver activates within established facility policy guidelines.

Special Nursing Care Functions

• Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
• Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Provide daily indwelling catheter care.
• Provide daily perineal care.
• Perform nonsterile (clean) vaginal irrigation/douches.
• Assist with the application of slings, elastic bandages, binders, etc.
• Give tepid sponge baths.
• Provide daily Range of Motion Exercises. Record data as instructed.
• Turn bedfast residents at least every two (2) hours.
• Perform diabetic urine testing as instructed.
• Provide physical and respiratory therapy as instructed.
• Perform special treatments as instructed.
• Observe disoriented and comatose residents. Record and report data as instructed.
• Turn all medications found in the resident’s room/possession over to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Provide residents with Reality Orientation as instructed.
• Watch for and report any change in room temperature, ventilation, lighting, etc.

Education

Must possess, as a minimum, a 10th grade education.

Experience

Must be a licensed STNA in accordance with laws of this state.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.