nurse aide
Your tasks
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment.
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort.
- Perform other duties related to personal care.
- Supply and empty bed pans.
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse.
- Serve meal trays and feed patients.
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments.
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms.
- Maintain inventory of supplies.
- Transport patients between care facilities.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Collect specimens.
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
Requirements
Education College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years. or equivalent experience.
Personal suitability
- Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Patience.
1 year to less than 2 years.
What we offer
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Night.
- On call.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
Other
Work setting
- Willing to relocate.
- Physician's office.
- Hospital/medical facility or clinic.
- Public or community health centre.
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Employment terms options
- Early morning.
- Evening.