Objective Compassionate, resourceful, and reliable patient care specialist, possessing over 15 years of professional and personal experience in home, nursing facility, and assisted living settings, seeking to provide the highest quality care to elderly and disabled clients. Skills • Provide thorough and careful assistance with daily living needs including bathing, grooming, and dressing. • Purchase, prepare, and serve food for patients, following special prescribed diets. • Administer prescribed oral medications under written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse. • Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor or case manager. Check and chart patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration. • Massage patients and apply preparations and treatments as necessary, being attentive to patient’s hygiene, proper positioning, and injury prevention. • Assist patients into and out of bed, automobile, or wheelchair, to lavatory, and up and down stairs. • Accompany ambulatory patients outside home, to medical appointments and social engagement, serving as guide, companion, and aide. • Provide social support and companionship to clients, many whom are completely housebound and often do not receive many visitors. Entertain patients; read aloud; and play board, card, and other stimulatory games. • Perform light housekeeping including laundry, dishwashing, and general household
Caregivers that work non-full-time jobs or irregular shifts can negotiate extra compensation in addition to their standard hourly wage.
CareLinx home care services include housekeeping, transportation, meal preparation, shopping, medication reminders, mobility assistance, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing, exercise, companionship and more. Compared to traditional agencies, our caregiver services include four distinct advantages.
1. Preferred, high-quality care: CareLinx customers prefer our care over competitors’ by a factor of 10 to 1. You get to choose and interview the caregiver, resulting in a better match and higher quality care.
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3. Care advocates: our direct-hire model gives caregivers higher wages and flexible schedules, and consumers low prices. Everyone gets a better quality of life.
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