patient care associate

Additional Information

• Education: Registered Apprenticeship certificate
• Experience: Experience an asset

Tasks

• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• 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
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals
• Collect specimens
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week