cna - Graham, United States - Guardian Home Healthcare, Inc.

Description

Job Qualifications:
To be considered for employment, All caregiver must have high school diploma or general education certificate (GED); must be listed with the North Carolina Nurse Aide Registry with No Substantiated Finding(s); Criminal background checked with no felonies; Negative TB test results; Current CPR and First Aid Certificate and reliable transportation.

Job Description:
These are hands on paraprofessional services which assist our clients, their families or both with essential home management tasks, personal care tasks, or supervision of the client's activities to enable them, their families or both to remain and function effectively in their home for as long as possible.

Caregivers at Guardian Home Healthcare, Inc. provide personal care, assistant services, and home management tasks that support the client's health, care and safety. Caregivers shall be assigned only to duties for which they are trained, competent, qualified, and licensed to perform.

Responsibilities:

• Provide and assist with personal care (i.e., dressing, bathing, oral care, skin, nail and hair).
• Assist with ambulation and transfer with or without assertive/mechanical devices.
• Perform incidental household services which are essential to the client's care at home.
• Record and Report changes in the client's condition, family situation or needs to the nurse administrator or appropriate authorities.
• Provide companionship and/or emotional support.
• Assist or administer bed or tub bath, basin, shower or sit bath.
• Make an occupied or unoccupied bed.
• Assist with planning and preparing proper nutritional meals per physician's order while maintaining proper food handling.
• Prepare client for mealtime and assist with feeding.
• Empty/record drainage of catheter bag, record intake.
• Assist client with bedpan and/or urinal
• Provide basic first aid.
• Observe, record, and report self-administered medications.
• Assist in organizing household items
• Report to work with a clean, well-groomed appearance at all times.
• Maintain professional boundaries with clients at all times.
• Complete other duties as may be assigned.