If you are a caretaker (not a nurse), what happens normally in a day?!
Question: How does the job description of a caretaker sounds like?
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Is this a 24 hr. position? Depending on what the person needs, it can sound like this.
Morning: prepare breakfastmay need assistance in eating, assist in shower/bath/washing and grooming, and dressing. help may be required in transfer or walking.
Lunch: prepare lunch, may need assistance in eating. May need to help assist to bathroom. Should not let person sit for more than a couple of hours as they could then have breakdown of the skin. Entertain as needed.
Dinner: prepare dinner. may need assist eating. oh. and you need to clean up dishes after meals. Assist person as needed.
Night: help person to dress for bed, and to get into bed.
There are so many different things to being a caretaker, suffice it to say that all activities of daily living. Think about what you do everyday without thinking about it, and thats what a caretaker helps people with.
The most difficult thing was finding out that one of the old women I took care of was hoarding her pills unerneath her pillow and I found them, and turned her in to the agency. If I hadn't found them she would probably died while I was taking care of her.
Also when I worked at a nursing home, I had to clean up a dead person.
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I AM NOT EITHER!
I get to my client's house at ten, give her a shower, med reminder, help her dress and we go out for lunch. She then loves to shop and we go to movies, and fun things. I clean up her clothes and do the wash and pick up the house, but she has a cleaner every 2 weeks. Sometimes I cook supper but usually her husband brings home prepared food for them. I help him take her to doctor and dentist appointments also. More meds every few hours.Sometimes I do her hair.
Hi I am a cna (Certified Nursing Assistant) a.k.a a personal care provider, and depending on what type of setting your are working in (nursing home, residential house, or hospital) you will deal with many different obstacles, or hurddles none of that are to hard to jump, but on a daily basis if I am working in a nursing home the worst I deal with is changing diapers or briefs on the patient, when working in a hospital the work is alot different I might be transporting or moving a patient around on the easy roll bed (gurney), but when providing in home care you might be helping someone who needs help with minor things in their daily activities for living like grocery shopping, bathing, cleaning house ect. but if you really want to knoe the real deal you need to make your question more specific ( to the point), what type of place ae you gon be workin at, hospital, nursing home, home healthcare, assisted living, because they all different so if you really want to know what it is make your questin more specific and re submit it and I'll let you know, I been in the feild for a minute so I know holla.
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