Job
Summary:
Cares for elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in patient's home by performing the following duties.
Essential
Functions:
- Changes bed linens, washes and irons client's laundry, and cleans client's
quarters.
- Cleans kitchen and bath fixtures and appliances, dusts and sweeps
floors.
- Purchases, prepares, and serves food for client, may require following special prescribed
diets.
- Assists clients into and out of bed, wheelchair, to lavatory, and up and down
stairs.
- Assists clients with dressing, bathing, toileting and
grooming.
- Assists with mobility and transfer for partial weight bearing
clients
.
- Reads and writes essential correspondence for clients unable to do so for
themselves.
- Entertains client, reads aloud, and plays cards or other games with client in cases involving respite
care.
- Performs variety of miscellaneous duties as requested such as obtaining household supplies and running essential errands.
- Maintains records of services performed and of apparent condition of
client.
- Attends regular in-services on relevant care
topics
.
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- Hygiene care of persons with ostomies and
catheters.
- Administering bowel
programs.
- Application of aseptic
dressings.
- Assistance with non-injectable
medicines
.
- Passive range of
motion.
- Assistance with use of transfer
devices.