Shower Aide Ft Days

Join Woodside in this newly created position to assist our current staff and residents!
Monday-Friday, 5:00am-1:30pm
Our Shower Assistant works in our Assisted Living Facility:
Essential Functions:  Promote principles of resident directed care including honoring residents' desires, strengths, and preferences. Promote residents' highest level of function Responsible for managing and executing the showers of the residents including nailcare as needed. Perform wound care/dressing changes as needed. Secondary Functions: 
Promote principles of resident directed care including honoring residents' desires, strengths, and preferences. Promote residents' highest level of function Transfers residents, in wheelchairs, from room to common area, dining area, activities, or church Once certified, administers medications as ordered, including insulin, injections, topical, enteral, oral, etc. Understands the importance and necessity of accurate documentation Assemble, thin, and disassemble resident charts as necessary Responds to inquiries from families, and other referral sources by providing information about the facility, including tours when the Villa Care Coordinator or Admissions Coordinator are unavailable Provides care on the basis of infection control and blood borne pathogen best practices Answer resident call signals Turn and reposition residents alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum as needed Observe resident conditions, measuring and recording intake and output and vitals as needed and ordered. Report changes to professional staff, physician, and/or family Provide residents with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed. Assist to groom, shave, dress and complete incontinent care as needed. Assist residents with eating Our successful caregivers are preferred to have experience as a caregiver in a CBRF or other healthcare setting, but other candidates will be considered as well.