Job Description
Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
+ Provides for patient's personal hygiene and daily living. This may include providing and clearing bedpans and urinals, providing baths, backrubs, shampoos and shaves, and assisting patients with showers. Assists with meals and feeds patients. Ambulates, turns and positions patients. Provides fresh water and nourishment between meals.
+ Administers enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths, and applies restraints.
+ Assists with patient admissions; checks vital signs and weight; performs sugar and acetone urine testing, specimen collection, and post-mortem care.
+ Communicates with and keeps professional nurse informed on unit activities, needs and problems related to patient care.
+ Informs professional nurse and Unit Secretary of time of patient transfer and discharge.
+ Records patient information regard...
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
+ Provides for patient's personal hygiene and daily living. This may include providing and clearing bedpans and urinals, providing baths, backrubs, shampoos and shaves, and assisting patients with showers. Assists with meals and feeds patients. Ambulates, turns and positions patients. Provides fresh water and nourishment between meals.
+ Administers enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths, and applies restraints.
+ Assists with patient admissions; checks vital signs and weight; performs sugar and acetone urine testing, specimen collection, and post-mortem care.
+ Communicates with and keeps professional nurse informed on unit activities, needs and problems related to patient care.
+ Informs professional nurse and Unit Secretary of time of patient transfer and discharge.
+ Records patient information regard...