Description
Overview Languages English Education
- College/CEGEP
- or equivalent experience
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Remote location
- Rural area
- Urban area
- Various locations
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
- Physician's office
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital/medical facility or clinic
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
- Youth drop-in centre
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
Duties
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Collect specimens
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Qualifications
Credentials Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate