Middlesex Terrace Long Term Care Home Looking for Nursing PSW Students at Delaware, ON Full Time

Nursing Students who are actively working towards their Year 1 or Year 2 Nursing license are encouraged to apply.

Job Duties Include:

· Assist with all aspects of personal hygiene and activities of daily living.

· Provide services to residents including transferring, lifting, bathing, feeding, and personal care.

· Ensure all documentation is completed through Point of Care or other home specific documentation format.

· Maintains a professional manner at all times in the performance of duties.

· Protect and promote the welfare, dignity, and individual rights of our residents at all times.

· Adhere to the goals, policies, and aims of APANS in all professional activities. · Provide each resident with meaningful companionship, observation, safety and conservation.

· Participate in the rehabilitative approach to resident care.

· Ensure the resident’s surroundings and personal effects are clean, tidy and serviceable.

· Employ safe work practices at all times.

· Answer call bells.

· Perform other duties related to resident care as requested or directed.

· Report or record fluid intake and output.

· Collect specimens such as urine, feces or sputum.

· Make beds and maintain residents’ rooms.

· Clean or sterilize equipment as per policy and procedure.

· Assemble, setup and operate job-related equipment.

· Assists in escorting residents to specific programs and activities.

· Promotes effective Infection Control measures for self, residents and others.

· Participates in educational opportunities and in-services.

· Participates in the interdisciplinary care conferences, provides information to assist in the formulation of a comprehensive plan of care for each resident.

· Maintains effective communication and good human relations with residents, families and fellow staff using the appropriate lines of communication. (Works co-operatively with families, including them in the resident’s care needs.)

· Directs all inquiries regarding residents’ care and conditions to the Charge Nurse.

· Assists in the training, guiding and supporting of new staff through the orientation period.

· Assists in maintaining a safe environment for residents and staff by following safety policies and procedures and reporting hazardous situations in the appropriate manner. Performs pre-start-up inspections as required.

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week

Salary: From $20.44 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability