Caregiver (part time) - Loma Linda Assisted Living

PACS

7d

About The Position

Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary. • Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information. • Report all changes in the resident’s condition to the Nurse as soon as practical. • Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner. • Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur. • Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator. • Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility’s information system. • Perform only those care procedures that you have been trained to do. • Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.). • Greet residents and escort them to their room. • Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate. • Make resident comfortable. • Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed. • Store resident’s clothing. • Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged. • Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area. • Assist with loading/unloading residents’ to/from vehicles as necessary. • Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift. • Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services. • Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident. • Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed. • Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids. • Make beds as instructed. • Put extra covers on beds as requested. • Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. • Answer resident calls promptly.• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met. • Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.). • Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident. • Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.). • Receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty. • Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors. • Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks. • Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents. • Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work. • Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents. • Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary). • Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled). • Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.). • Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc. • Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed. • Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination. • Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes. • Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores). • Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears. • Observe disoriented and comatose residents. Record and report data as instructed • Perform special treatments as instructed. • Immediately notify the Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility. • Use only the equipment you have been trained to use. • Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse • Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information. Report known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information. • Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property. • Honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request. Report such requests to your supervisor. • Give back rubs as instructed • Assist residents with dressingndressing as necessary • Assist residents with hair care functions (i.e., combing, brushing, shampooing, etc.) • Assist residents with nail care (i.e., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails) • Shave male residents • Keep hair on female residents clean (i.e., facial hair, under arms, on legs, etc.) as instructed. • Keep residents dry (i.e., mchhange gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled) • Make beds (occupied and unoccupied) • Put extra covers on beds as requested • Position bedrest residents in correct residents in correct and comfortable positions. • Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bed pan,urinal, portable commode, etc.) • Maintain intake and output records as instructed. • Keep incontinent residents clean and dry. • Check and report bowl movements and character of stool as instructed • Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed. • Utilize protective and adaptive equipment as instructed. • Provide eye and ear care (i.e., hearing aide installation, cleaning eye glasses/hearing aids, etc.) as instructed. • Assist in preparing the resident for physical examination. • Weig and measure residents as instructed. • Measure and record temperatures. Pulse, and repspirarions (TPRs), as instructed. • Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently. • Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordace with his/her wishes. • Assist with the care of the duomg resident. • Assist with post-mortem care as instructed.

Requirements

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• To preform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
• Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.

Responsibilities

• Use the wristband or photo card file to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc., as necessary.
• Use only authorized abbreviations established by this facility when recording information.
• Report all changes in the resident’s condition to the Nurse as soon as practical.
• Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.
• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur.
• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility’s information system.
• Perform only those care procedures that you have been trained to do.
• Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for receiving the resident (i.e., bed made, name tags up, admission kit available, etc.).
• Greet residents and escort them to their room.
• Introduce resident to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
• Make resident comfortable.
• Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed.
• Store resident’s clothing.
• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
• Assist with loading/unloading residents’ to/from vehicles as necessary.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Make beds as instructed.
• Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Answer resident calls promptly.
• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).
• Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
• Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.).
• Receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.
• Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary).
• Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
• Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
• Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Observe disoriented and comatose residents. Record and report data as instructed
• Perform special treatments as instructed.
• Immediately notify the Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility.
• Use only the equipment you have been trained to use.
• Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information. Report known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information.
• Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
• Honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request. Report such requests to your supervisor.
• Give back rubs as instructed
• Assist residents with dressingndressing as necessary
• Assist residents with hair care functions (i.e., combing, brushing, shampooing, etc.)
• Assist residents with nail care (i.e., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails)
• Shave male residents
• Keep hair on female residents clean (i.e., facial hair, under arms, on legs, etc.) as instructed.
• Keep residents dry (i.e., mchhange gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled)
• Make beds (occupied and unoccupied)
• Put extra covers on beds as requested
• Position bedrest residents in correct residents in correct and comfortable positions.
• Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bed pan,urinal, portable commode, etc.)
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
• Keep incontinent residents clean and dry.
• Check and report bowl movements and character of stool as instructed
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Utilize protective and adaptive equipment as instructed.
• Provide eye and ear care (i.e., hearing aide installation, cleaning eye glasses/hearing aids, etc.) as instructed.
• Assist in preparing the resident for physical examination.
• Weig and measure residents as instructed.
• Measure and record temperatures. Pulse, and repspirarions (TPRs), as instructed.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordace with his/her wishes.
• Assist with the care of the duomg resident.
• Assist with post-mortem care as instructed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed