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Seeking a Care Aide for a Retirement Villa. You will perform routine tasks under the supervision of registered nurse such as: take residents' temperate, pulse, and respiration rate, bathe and dress residents.
Assist residents with day to day living experience such as: Bathing/ Showering, mobility to and from meals.
Report abnormal changes, patterns or violent behavior to nursing staff.
Must be physically able to follow proper procedures for lifting and moving patients as well as supplies.
Must have or be willing to get:
PCW course
First Aide Course
Food Safe Course
WHMIS
vulnerable criminal record check
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
Additional Skills
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Immunization records