Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
Credentials: CPR Certificate
Work Setting
On site: Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting: Rural area; Nursing home/home for the aged
Responsibilities
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
- Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Supervise patients’ exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
- Collect specimens
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced workplace
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling