Nurse Aide

Description

Provides basic care for patients, whether in a long-term healthcare facility. Duties include following and administering prescribed routines with patients, monitoring their vital signs, and assisting them with day-to-day functioning and activities.

Wage

  • $23.39 to $25.40 hourly (to be negotiated)

Hours

  • 30 to 40 hours per week

Shifts

  • Day, Evening, Night, Weekend, Shift, On Call, Flexible Hours, Early Morning, Morning

Languages

  • English

Language Requirements

  • CLB 5 or Higher

Education

  • College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years or equivalent experience

Credentials (Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses)

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Nursing Aide Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate
  • Personal Support Worker Certificate

Experience

  • Experience an asset

Work setting

  • Nursing home/home for the aged
  • Staff accommodation available

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Supply and empty bedpans
  • Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Transport patients in wheelchairs or stretchers
  • Collect specimens
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations
  • Provide personal care
  • Provide companionship
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Launder clothing and household linens
  • Administer bedside and personal care
  • Feed or assist in feeding
  • Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene

Additional information

Security and safety

  • Immunization records
  • Tuberculosis test
  • Reference required

Vulnerable sector check

Weight Handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Benefits

  • Long term benefits
  • Other benefits