Basic Care Assistant - (Patient care)

Responsibilities

• Attend to patients’ call bells
• Assists with lifting, transferring, positioning and transporting of patients
• Assist in ambulation of patients, assists in admission and orientation of new patients
• Attends to patients’ elimination needs – offers, removes and sanitize bedpans and urinals
• Assist patient with basic personal hygiene, change bed linen and perform bed making
• Conduct frequent/ regular rounds to attend to patient’s needs, comfort and safety
• Collect MRSA swabs (nasal, axilla, groin) and dispatch
• Clinical Observation, care of patient with urine catheter
• Observe general condition of patients and reports observations to the nurse-in-charge (e.g. behaviour change)
• Nutritional needs, perform oral feeding for patients with normal swallowing ability
• Orientate patient on ward environment and visitor policy
  

Requirements

• Minimum qualification: PSLE / WPLN level 3 or equivalent. Conversant in English
• CPR/AED basic provider