Nurse Aide Job

Location:: 1900 City Park Drive suite, 3rd floor office 321, Gloucester, ON, K1J 1A3
Work location:: On site
Salary:: $36.10 hourly / 35 hours per week
Terms of employment:: Permanent employment, Full time, Early morning, Evening, Morning, Night, Day, Weekend, Overtime required
Start Date:: Starts as soon as possible
vacancies:: 5 vacancies

Job Description

· Respond to incoming calls, bathe, dress, and comb patients, serve food trays, feed patients, and help patients choose a suitable menu, help patients in moving and changing postures, shave patients before surgeries; help in exercise, escort patients for going out and perform all duties for their care and concerns

· Observe patients’ vital signs and weight

· Measure patients' blood pressure, temperature; notice fluid intake and output; keep up with patients' status and manage first aid; collect specimens such as urine or faeces and perform other procedures as instructed

· Carry patients by wheelchair or stretcher for medications or surgeries

· Send messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens to specific departments

· Organize patients’ room

· Maintain inventory of supplies

· Set-up and maintain traction equipment, clean, and sterilize equipment, repair equipment

· Take patients to different departments or facilities like labs, clinic, hospital, etc.

· Comply with all safety and health regulations

Languages
English

Education
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience
1 year to less than 2 years

On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Responsibilities
Tasks
· Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
· Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
· Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
· Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
· 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
· 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
· Collect specimens
· Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
· Administer first aid in emergency situations

Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
· Fast-paced environment
· Physically demanding
· Attention to detail
· Sound discrimination
· Combination of sitting, standing, walking
· Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability
· Efficient interpersonal skills
· Excellent oral communication
· Flexibility
· Judgement
· Organized
· Team player
· Patience

How to apply
By email:: [email protected]