Nurse Aide

Responsibilities

Tasks

• 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
• Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Patience