Personal Support WorkerFull-Time

Tasks

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities

• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment

• Assist with maintenance and repair 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

• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients

• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments

• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms

• Supervise patients' exercise routines

• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas

• Maintain inventory of supplies

• Bathe, dress and groom patients

• 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