Personal Care Aide

Job Description
Summary
Personal Care Aides (PCAs) provide compassionate, extraordinary, personal hands-on care
Where each resident’s health and well-being is of ultimate importance.
Essential functions
- Participate in Shift Report
- Review Cardex or Resident Service Agreement for each resident to identify needs.
- Make hourly rounds on each resident.
- Wake the residents in the morning.
- Shower the residents.
- Groom the residents.
- Dress the residents.
- Monitor personal hygiene.
- Maintain supply of personal hygiene products in each resident’s apartment
- Encourage residents to participate in activities.
- Clean the resident’s apartments.
- Do bed, bath, and personal laundry.
- Clean the Staff Lounge
- Maintain furniture and equipment.
- Transfer and transport the residents.
- Provide bowel and bladder management.
- Assist residents with prosthetic devices.
- Wash and assist residents with TEDs.
- Monitor items purchased while shopping without voiding residents’ rights.
- Assist residents to shop for personal items in the Country Store
- Assist residents in tracking their personal items.
- Assist residents to use the phone.
- Support residents in the Dining Room
- Provide basic nail care.
- Assist resident with writing correspondence.
- Performs other duties, as assigned.