Assisted with personal care, meals, housekeeping, medication reminders, grocery shopping, escorted to doctor's appointments and engaged in recreational activities, including organizing mail, managing appointments, reading newspaper to clients and encouraging, overseeing exercising.

Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager. Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine. Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming. Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care. Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets. Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship. ... more

Answer patients' call signals. • Turn and reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores. • Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff. • Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves. • Provide patients with help exercising, and moving in and out of bed. • Provide patient care by supplying and empt ying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines. • Bathe, groom, shave, dress, patients, • Transport patients from bed to wheelchair. • Clean rooms and change linens. • Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum. ... more

• Answer patients' call signals. • Turn and reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores. • Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff. • Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves. • Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed. • Provide patient care by supplyi ng and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines. • Bathe, groom, shave, dress, patients, • Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher. • Clean rooms and change linens. • Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum. ... more