Personal Care Attendants/Assistants
Services provided Include:
- Routine light housekeeping – such as making and changing beds, dusting, dishes, keeping kitchen and bathroom clean and tidy, vacuuming, shopping or other light housekeeping tasks as requested by client
- Light laundry (not curtains, bedspreads, etc.) – provide light laundry service to include carrying, sorting, washing, hanging and gathering, separating and storage
- Prepare meals – include meal planning and special diet implementation
- Marketing and errands – grocery shopping, pharmacy
- Accompany clients on visits to physicians or other appointments
- Assist in promoting mental alertness of the client through conversation and other activities
- Accompany the client on walks outside of the home
- May be asked to assist in the emptying and sanitizing of portable commodes
* for Medicaid Recipients, please refer to the duties listed for homemaker vs. companion.
Private Clients:
(Includes above list plus:)
- Remind the client to take self administered medications (chart as needed)
- Personal Care to consist of:
- Bathing: bed, tub, shower, or sponge bath
- Oral hygiene: dentures and or special mouth care
- Body positioning and alignment as indicated
- Hair Care: brush, comb, shampoo – wet or dry
- Other designated duties may be:
- Skin Care: back care, foot soak and/or shave
- Dressing: assist client with dressing and undressing
- Assistance and Records:
- Other assistance: to include but not limited to transfers to a chair, wheelchair or commode, bathroom or raised toilet seat
- Ambulating assistance: with walker, cane, crutches or stand-by assistance
- Bed making: occupied or unoccupied
- Fluid: encourage intake or limit intake – record
- Elimination: to bathroom, bedpan, urinal or commode – sanitizing
- Bowel movements: record
- Urine output: record
Duties of a Professional Nurse by GeronNursing
- Providing individual client care including assessment, care planning with client and family, direct implementation of care and evaluation
- Providing teaching for client and family regarding disease, use of equipment and supplies
- Providing medication pours and management; monitoring client's condition advising physician and family of any changes in status
- Maintaining supplies and equipment for safe and optimal functioning
- Integrating care with other appropriate health services
- Providing referrals when needed and/or when requested
Duties of our para-professionals by Geron Home Care
- Assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADL's)
- Assistance with Dressing
- Hygiene assistance including showering, bathing, skin care with lotion, shampoo, teeth and denture care
- Meal Planning, preparing and serving
- Monitor client's activities ensuring safety
- Transportation/Escort to doctor's visits, shopping, and errands - grocery store, pharmacy
- Remind client to take self-administered medications
- Keeping family informed of client's needs and/or changes in condition
- Engaging client in conversation and activities of interest promoting mental alertness
- Assistance with transfers to and from bed, chair, wheelchair, commode, and toilet
- Ambulating assistance for safety with wheelchair, cane, crutches, or standby monitoring
- Monitoring and recording food and fluid intake, elimination, bowel movements, urine output and body weight.
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