Personal support worker – nursing care
Transitions Care
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
Will train
On the road
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Various locations
Responsibilities
Tasks
- 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
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Supervise patients’ exercise routines
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
- Collect specimens
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate