Job Description
Job requirements – Nursing Attendant
Languages
French
Education
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Credentials for Nursing Attendant (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
First Aid Certificate; CPR Certificate
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
- Specific Skills
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas. Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher. Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse. Supervise patients’ exercise routines. Collect specimens; Bathe, dress and groom patients. Answer call signals. Weigh, lift, turn and position patients. Administer first aid in emergency situations. Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort.
- Additional Skills
- Serve meal trays and feed patients; Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms; Maintain inventory of supplies; Supply and empty bed pans; 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; Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Weight Handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Work Setting
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Security and Safety
- Criminal record check
- Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment; Work under pressure; Repetitive tasks; Physically demanding; Attention to detail; Combination of sitting, standing, walking; Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Personal Suitability
- Initiative; Effective interpersonal skills; Flexibility; Team player; Client focus; Interpersonal awareness; Judgement; Reliability; Organized
This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups: Indigenous people, Persons with disabilities, Newcomers to Canada, Veterans, Visible minorities, Youth
Intended job posting audience
Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your job application.
