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.