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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Acute Care

Sauk Prairie Healthcare · Prairie du Sac, WI · Part time

Posted Oct 2, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

How do you keep a patient's dignity during bathing and toileting?

What they are checking: Respectful personal care, which affects how safe and cared for patients feel.

How do you stay alert and careful through a 12-hour night shift?

What they are checking: Self-awareness about fatigue and habits that prevent mistakes overnight.

Tell me about a time your assignment changed suddenly. How did you adjust?

What they are checking: Flexibility, which the posting says is needed as patient status and unit needs change.

How does every third weekend and holiday on nights fit your life?

What they are checking: Honest fit with the posted schedule, since a small unit depends on reliable coverage.

What would you do

It's 3 a.m. and two call lights go on at once while you're helping a third patient. What do you do?

What they are checking: Prioritizing safety, such as fall risks, and asking teammates for help instead of making patients wait too long.

You notice a patient seems more confused than earlier in the shift. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they recognize a change in mental status as a warning sign and report it promptly.

A patient at high fall risk insists on walking to the bathroom alone. What do you do?

What they are checking: Balancing patient independence with safety and using fall precautions.

About the work

Walk me through how you turn and reposition a patient who can't move on their own.

What they are checking: Safe handling that prevents pressure injuries and protects their own back.

What vital signs or blood sugar readings would make you tell the nurse right away?

What they are checking: Knowing abnormal values and escalating quickly instead of just writing them down.

How do you report what you've seen during a shift so the nurse has what they need?

What they are checking: Clear, timely documentation and verbal reports about physical and mental changes.

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The full job description

As published by Sauk Prairie Healthcare.

Looking to be part of a team that provides extraordinary healthcare from the heart? You Belong Here. POSITION SPECIFICS Title: Certified Nursing Assistant FTE: Part-time, 0.6 FTE (48 hours per pay period) Schedule: 12-hour night shifts, 6:45PM - 7:15PM Holiday Rotation: Every Third Weekend Rotation: Every Third On Call Requirements: None POSITION SUMMARY Under the supervision of a nurse, provide direct patient care, comfort, and assistance with activities of daily living and rehabilitation. Must be adaptable to changes in daily assignments, patient status changes and unit needs as well as have the ability to stay organized in a busy and demanding setting. POSITION TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide direct patient care under the direction of the Registered Nurse. Responsible for executing duties as assigned. • Establish and meet timeline for patient care and other forms of work. • Answer patient call lights within the parameters outlined by unit-specific guidelines. • Provide basic hygiene that may include bathing, oral care, and dressing of patient. • Assist with toileting, turning and ambulation in accordance with policy and procedures. • Takes patient vital signs, including: blood pressure, pulse, respirations, temperature, oxygen level and glucose monitoring. • Timely and accurately relay and document information to include physical and mental status changes, vital signs, meal consumption, liquid intake, glucose results, distances walked, and daily bowel movement and urine amounts. • Effectively relay information to the next CNA on shift, or to the nurse in charge. Participate in bedside reporting. • Safely care for multiple patients. Use safety precautions appropriately. • Ensure a clean, safe and organized environment equipped with adequate supplies for each patient. • Ensure that equipment is maintained in a clean and safe manner. Removes and tags equipment from patient use when in need of repair. • Float to other units as necessary. • May have precepting responsibility. • Participate in education by attending inservices as required. Attend 75% of unit meetings. • Demonstrate understanding and utilization of Universal Precautions, asepsis and infection control procedures. • Kindly greet each person entering the facility. • Explain to patients/visitors/vendors the purpose of temperature and symptom screening. • Explain current visitor/patient support partner protocol as needed. • Ensure patient/visitors/vendors are screened appropriately with current requirements. • Administer and interpret temperature of each scanned individual using the no-touch digital thermometer. • Screen persons entering the facility. • Ensure all who enter the facility are wearing a mask/face covering and provide a mask to those without one. • Confirms with entering patients their destination and direct them to the department. • Confirm permitted visitors in coordination with the Welcome Desk staff. • Maintain a clean and orderly work area and entry vestibule. • Monitor screening supplies and report needs for additional supplies. • Clean returned wheelchairs prior to reuse by another patient. • Other duties as assigned to include assisting with projects and tasks that can be performed at the work station. POSITION REQUIREMENTS Education: • Required: None • Preferred: None Experience: • Required: None • Preferred: Previous experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant Licenses and Registrations: • Required: Valid certificate as a Certified Nursing Assistant • Preferred: None Certification(s): • Required: Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 3 months of hire date. • Preferred: None BENEFIT SUMMARY • Competitive health and dental insurance options • Flexible paid time off to balance work and life • Retirement plan with immediate vesting and employer match • Discounted membership to our state-of-the-art fitness facility • Generous tuition reimbursement • Employer provided life and disability insurance • Free parking at facility #IND100

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