Focus on Caring is seeking a Senior Health Care Aide to provide compassionate palliative and personal care to clients in Calgary and surrounding area. This is a full-time, permanent role. Language of work is English. Pay is $20.00 per hour plus 4% vacation pay. Workers' compensation benefits are paid by the employer.
Responsibilities:
- Administer palliative subcutaneous medications and pain medications as directed by physicians and Registered Nurses
- Provide comfort care including oral hygiene, sponge bathing, massage, and special treatments
- Perform post-mortem care
- Manage ostomy care: emptying and changing ostomy bags, assessing sites, reporting changes
- Manage catheter care: emptying and cleaning catheter bags, changing night/day bags, assessing insertion sites
- Perform bladder irrigation and intermittent catheterization
- Assess blood glucose with a glucometer and assist with insulin administration under RN guidance
- Perform wound care using a variety of dressings
- Perform PEG feeding and change insertion site dressings
- Administer suppositories and enemas as recommended by physicians
- Perform other duties consistent with the position
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