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Network Care Aide
Care Aide
A career as a home health care aide can be a very rewarding experience. Care Aides provide a variety of services and assistance that allow elderly and disabled residents to live comfortably. A care aide not only helps an individual but also provides peace of mind to family members who are concerned about a loved one in need of personal care. Care Aides are naturally compassionate and, as one aide said, will try to help patients so that the patients can help themselves. Individuals enter into the field for a variety of reasons; some do so after caring for a family member or loved one while others are retirees looking to stay active.
A Residential Care Aide Diploma can find employment at Facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, senior home care agencies, hospices and community senior service programs. Usually a Registered Nurse supervises the Residential Care Aide Diploma. However, the care aide is the person who has daily contact with the senior and can be the most valuable source of information about the senior's condition for doctors and family members.
In addition to the need for more caregivers because of the aging population, there is also the issue of burnout which causes high-turnover of caregivers at nursing facilities and hospitals. Many times it is a challenge to provide quality care to multiple patients. Because of this, many Residential Care Aides prefer to work for senior home care agencies where they are caring for just one person at a time.
Duties Residential Care Aide performs include:
* Dressing
* Bathing
* Feeding
* Toileting
* Vital signs
* Catheter care
* Assists with ambulation
* Range of Motion Exercises
* Assists into and out of wheelchairs
* Makes beds, changes bed linens
* Turns bedridden patients every two hours, to prevent bedsores
* Provides updates to care plans to supervisor
* Monitors safety
* Documents daily care provided in care plan notes
* Light housekeeping to maintain cleanliness
Email Address: carelucky@yahoo.com
A career as a home health care aide can be a very rewarding experience. Care Aides provide a variety of services and assistance that allow elderly and disabled residents to live comfortably. A care aide not only helps an individual but also provides peace of mind to family members who are concerned about a loved one in need of personal care. Care Aides are naturally compassionate and, as one aide said, will try to help patients so that the patients can help themselves. Individuals enter into the field for a variety of reasons; some do so after caring for a family member or loved one while others are retirees looking to stay active.
A Residential Care Aide Diploma can find employment at Facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, senior home care agencies, hospices and community senior service programs. Usually a Registered Nurse supervises the Residential Care Aide Diploma. However, the care aide is the person who has daily contact with the senior and can be the most valuable source of information about the senior's condition for doctors and family members.
In addition to the need for more caregivers because of the aging population, there is also the issue of burnout which causes high-turnover of caregivers at nursing facilities and hospitals. Many times it is a challenge to provide quality care to multiple patients. Because of this, many Residential Care Aides prefer to work for senior home care agencies where they are caring for just one person at a time.
Duties Residential Care Aide performs include:
* Dressing
* Bathing
* Feeding
* Toileting
* Vital signs
* Catheter care
* Assists with ambulation
* Range of Motion Exercises
* Assists into and out of wheelchairs
* Makes beds, changes bed linens
* Turns bedridden patients every two hours, to prevent bedsores
* Provides updates to care plans to supervisor
* Monitors safety
* Documents daily care provided in care plan notes
* Light housekeeping to maintain cleanliness
Email Address: carelucky@yahoo.com
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