Vacancy caducado!
Medical Care Position: nursing assistant or related skills needed.
Personal Caregiver / Home Health Aide:
2 to 4 Hours per shift, Twice A Week.
Flexible Days/Schedule, Afternoon or Evening (based on YOUR availability) except Fridays.
Minimum 2 days in between visits.
COMPROMISED IMMUNITY and Co-Morbidities in this household: PROOF OF FULL COVID VACCINATION with ALL BOOSTERS, including New BiValent (Omicron) Booster, REQUIRED
Services needed:
Showering and Dressing assistance and support to woman with Rheumatoid Disease and Osteoporosis, primary job. Balance assistance necessary with walking at times. Patient and help description below.
Other help (leading to longer 4 hour shift):
Any personal experience with Physical Therapy (PT) helpful but not necessary (professional or personal): encourage pt w/assigned PT exercises, as in reminders, help her count reps, or possibly a short walk in home or yard, if there is time.
Cook dinner or start/prep meal for family of 3 would be appreciated (with what’s available in house). Husband usually cooks, but his work schedule doesn’t allow him time, so help would be really appreciated, even just to start or prep a meal. You would be welcome to join, share the meal, of course.
Note: Housekeeping/Cleaning Not necessary. (Family has housekeeping help.)
Must be okay with a miniature dog and cat, both very friendly.
Both smokers and non-smokers welcome.
About Patient:
Disabled Female in her 50's, pleasant and bright personality, with Inflammatory Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA),
other health disorders, including severe Osteoporosis. (smokes, but only in one room of the home)
Patient is quite weak, has some balance problems, some better days than others, exhausts easily, and is following home Physical Therapy instruction. Needs help at times with reminders to do PT, counting reps.
Patient struggles with swollen, at times malfunctioning joints from Rheumatoid Disease, muscle weakness, flare-ups which cause constant exhaustion as well as occasional minor memory problems.
Bathing is difficult, painful, and exhausting, but necessary with help, which is Caregiver’s primary and most important task. (Each day is different, unpredictable, with level of assistance needed.)
Patient lives with husband who works long hours in home office, and teenaged son who takes online college courses. Husband is unable to help patient with much physical assistance due to back problems.
Family and visitors are very careful to avoid any and all Covid exposure; they avoid public situations except when absolutely necessary. All are Fully Vaccinated including new Bivalent Boosted for Covid, wear masks when in public (caregiver will be safe from Covid exposure while around members of this family, They need similar level of Covid responsibility from caregiver).
Patient is 5’9”, 150 lbs., not a small woman. Caregiver must be strong and steady to help balance patient when needed.
If needed, son is able to teach the new caregiver easy, proper safety techniques they learned from Physical Therapists and RNs for balancing a patient, holding their arm and guarding while walking, support to help a patient to standing position when appropriate, as in helping up from a chair.
References required.
Pay $15-20/hour, based on experience
PLEASE EMAIL, including description of:
-your skills,
-any education after high school (even unrelated),
-any medical training (professional training not required), i.e. ability to take blood pressure, etc.,
-any previous experience, professional and/or personal, perhaps caring for a family elder.
We all know that while caring for a sick, injured or elderly relative, we learn skills that can help dramatically in a caregiving position. Please tell us about your experiences! ?
We look forward to meeting you soon.
Vacancy caducado!