What are the responsibilities and job description for the Direct Care Staff position at Destination Independence LLC?
Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with the RN or case manager.
Skills associated with this position:
1. Attend to or care for children
2. Work with persons with mental disabilities or illnesses
3. Position patient for therapy
4. Prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments
5. Administer medications or treatments
6. Maintain dental or medical records
7. Observe patient's condition
8. Set up patient care equipment
9. Take vital signs
10. Weigh patients
11. Collect specimens from patients
12. Administer personal hygiene processes to patients
We provide services that assist an individual in gaining access to needed medical, educational, and/or other services to locate, coordinate, and monitor necessary appropriate services. They may also encourage the use of cost-effective medical care by referring to appropriate providers and discouraging the overutilization of costly services. Case management may also provide necessary coordination of non-medical services such as vocational rehabilitation, education, and employment when the services provided enable the individual to function at the highest level.
- Interact, support, and converse with clients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Provide clients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as living independently, or adapting to disability.
- Perform a variety of duties and needs as requested by clients, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Services will be provided to HCS and IDD clients and their families.
Skills associated with this position:
1. Attend to or care for children
2. Work with persons with mental disabilities or illnesses
3. Position patient for therapy
4. Prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments
5. Administer medications or treatments
6. Maintain dental or medical records
7. Observe patient's condition
8. Set up patient care equipment
9. Take vital signs
10. Weigh patients
11. Collect specimens from patients
12. Administer personal hygiene processes to patients
We provide services that assist an individual in gaining access to needed medical, educational, and/or other services to locate, coordinate, and monitor necessary appropriate services. They may also encourage the use of cost-effective medical care by referring to appropriate providers and discouraging the overutilization of costly services. Case management may also provide necessary coordination of non-medical services such as vocational rehabilitation, education, and employment when the services provided enable the individual to function at the highest level.
