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Accepting applications from Foreign Trained Nurses, Certified Continuing Care Assistants, and/or Registered Nursing-RN (Student) who have completed 2 years of studies or Licensed Practical Nursing-LPN (Student) who have completed 1 year of studies. Must be fully vaccinated.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES
Provides personal care and activities of daily living for residents to
encourage optimum level of functioning. Supports residents in meeting
their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs.
KEY ACTIVITIES:
A. Direct Care and Monitoring of Residents
- Assists with activities of daily living as per care plan (e.g., nutrition, personal care and mobility).
- Provides input into the development of nursing care plans.
- Provides bathing and grooming services (e.g., hair care, shaves, nail care, make-up).
- Dresses and undresses residents.
- Provides oral care (e.g., brushing natural teeth or dentures).
- Provides bowel and bladder care (e.g., suppositories, enemas, catheters, ostomy bags).
Transfers/lifts and repositioning of residents (e.g., to and from bed,chair,commode, bath chair) using various aids and lifts, following assessment.
Assists residents with range-of-motion and personal exercise programs.
Prepares meals (e.g., plans, prepares, serves and cleans up), where required.
Assists with treatments as per care plan (e.g., ointments and simple dressings).
Monitors and ensures proper nutrition and hydration (e.g., assist/feed, cut meats, tube
feeds).
Observes, reports (written and/or shift) and records physical and psychological
observations/changes in resident condition (e.g., skin/scars/tattoos,
condition of feet/nails, mobility, nutrition, vital signs and glucose levels).
Promotes the social, spiritual, psychological and emotional well-being of residents, monitors and reports to the care team changes in behaviour.
Promotes good communication with residents and their support system.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Maintain inventory of supplies
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Enhanced reliability security clearance
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