Job Description

Job Responsibilities & Duties:

• Assist with daily living activities. This includes delivering meals to patients, turning and ambulating patients and providing plenty of fresh water, as well as extra nourishment between meals
• Help patients with personal hygiene.
• Provide patients with bedpans, help with baths, shampoos and showers
• Check vital signs and record daily information in the patient’s chart
• Assist the nurses and other staff as needed
• Adhere to professional standards, follow the policies and procedures and abide by federal, state and local requirements.
• Observe patients’ conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to the charge/staff nurse as soon as possible.