What Would I Do?
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Health care assistants help care for people who are old or sick. You may help nurses, hospital staff and physicians in the basic care of patients in hospitals. You may also provide care in community settings including home support and residential care facilities.
Your duties can include:
- basic personal care of patients including bathing, dressing, grooming and feeding
- weighing, lifting and repositioning patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or stretchers
- supervising patients’ exercise routines
- making beds and maintaining patients’ rooms
- setting up and providing leisure activities for patients
- accompanying patients on outside recreational activities and performing other duties related to patient care and comfort
- taking patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- observing or monitoring patients’ status and documenting patient care on charts
- administering first aid in emergency situations