nurse aide

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year

Work Setting:

• Urban area
• Persons with an intellectual disability

Tasks:

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
• 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
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Collect specimens

Certificates, Licences, Memberships, and Courses:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Personal Support Worker Certificate
• Elderly
• Convalescent
• Persons with physical disabilities
• Persons with mental health disabilities
• Persons with a disability
• Persons with Alzheimer's disease

Security and Safety:

• Immunization records
• Vulnerable sector check

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities:

• Work under pressure
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking