Personal Care Assistant
Royalty Health Care
Minneapolis, MN
01.2023 - Current
- Entertained, conversed, and read aloud to keep patients mentally alert.
- Planned activities to encourage movement, stretching and strength building.
- Maintained clean personal areas and prepared healthy meals to support client nutritional needs.
- Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs.
- Monitored and assisted residents through individual service plans.
- Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
- Assisted with daily living activities, running errands, and household chores.
- Transported individuals to events and activities, medical appointments, and shopping trips.
- Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Planned, prepared, and served meals and snacks according to prescribed diets.
- Documented residents' mental status, sleep, and eating patterns in medical record books.
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager.
- Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders.
- Assisted patients with self-administered medications.
- Cleaned house, ran errands, managed laundry, and completed weekly grocery shopping.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Remained alert to problems or health issues of clients and competently responded.
- Scheduled and accompanied clients to medical appointments.
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Conferred with supervisor to discuss patient condition and medical care.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Ran errands for patients, did shopping, and picked up other necessities.
- Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
- Helped clients maintain optimal health by overseeing medication administration and doctor's appointments.