health care aide

Comfort Keepers Victoria


Date: 17 hours ago
City: Victoria, British Columbia
Contract type: Full time
Overview

Languages

English

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

1 to less than 7 months

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work setting

  • Home care and visiting care agency

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
  • 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
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • 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
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate
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