What are the responsibilities and job description for the PCA/CNA position at Guardian Home Healthcare, Inc.?
About the Job
Guardian Home Healthcare is looking for a part-time CNA / PCA.
These are hands-on paraprofessional services that assist our clients, their families or both with essential home management tasks, personal care tasks, or supervision of the client's activities to enable them, their families or both to remain and function effectively in their home for as long as possible.
Caregivers at Guardian Home Healthcare, Inc. provide personal care, assistant services, and home management tasks that support the client's health, care and safety. Caregivers shall be assigned only to duties for which they are trained, competent, qualified, and licensed to perform.
Responsibilities :
- Provide and assist with personal care (i.e., dressing, bathing, oral care, skin, nail, and hair).
- Assist with ambulation and transfer with or without assertive / mechanical devices.
- Perform incidental household services that are essential to the client's care at home.
- Record and Report changes in the client's condition, family situation or needs to the nurse administrator or appropriate authorities.
- Provide companionship and / or emotional support.
- Assist or administer bed or tub bath, basin, shower or sitz bath.
- Make an occupied or unoccupied bed.
- Assist with planning and preparing proper nutritional meals per physician's order while maintaining proper food handling.
- Prepare clients for mealtime and assist with feeding.
- Empty / record drainage of catheter bag, record intake.
- Assist clients with bedpan and / or urinal.
- Provide basic first aid.
- Observe, record, and report self-administered medications.
- Assist in organizing household items.
- Reporting to work with a clean, well-groomed appearance at all times.
- Maintain professional boundaries with clients at all times.
Salary : $13 - $16