Prepare residents for meals and assist with meal service, transport residents to and from dining room, assist with feeding when necessary, and accurately document residents’ intake immediately after consumption
Serve nourishments and between-meal-snacks to residents as ordered and distribute ice and water, rotating water pitchers and deliver pitchers to the Dietary Department for sanitation.
Ambulate residents, assist residents in and out of chairs and wheelchairs, position bedridden residents according to plan of care, and utilize appropriate support devices
Provide personal care to patients/residents, including bathing (bed, shower, tub, whirlpool) shampooing, combing hair, oral care, personal hygiene, shaving, nail care, and dressing
Make occupied and unoccupied beds and turn down beds for residents
Provide skin care – keep residents on turn schedule and use lotions and massages as needed
Answer call lights and answer questions and respond, giving appropriate care or alerting Supervisor
Treat residents with dignity and always observe all residents’ rights and confidentiality
Attend mandatory in-services and maintain certification
Straighten residents’ rooms and closets and clean inside of bedside tables
Remove soiled linen, rinse in the hopper and transport dirty linens to laundry
