04 Jan
Pro-Care Health Services LTD
Winnipeg
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course
Additional Skills
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Transport patients between care facilities
Weight Handling
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
Work Setting
- Public or community health centre
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital/medical facility or clinic
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Specific Skills
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Child abuse registry check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Criminal record check
- Adult Abuse Registry
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Work Location Information
- Rural area
- Urban area
- Remote location
- Various locations
Personal Suitability
- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Client focus
- Interpersonal awareness
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Organized