Senior Health Care Aide

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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