personal support worker – nursing care

Minimum Requirements

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Tasks

• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Serve meal trays and feed 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
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Personal Suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player

Experience

• 1 year to less than 2 years
• As per collective agreement