This category can also be applicable to orderlies and patient service associates.
Minimum Education / Qualifications
All Nurse Aides must, as a minimum, have:
- Some secondary school education and on-the-job training or a nursing aide or health care aide college or private institutional program, or a college nursing orderly program and supervised practical training are required
- An appropriate class of driver’s license may be required for medical attendants
- A Certificate of Standard First Aid and BLS for Healthcare Provider or equivalent such as CPR/AED Level C
- Must successfully complete the Reliability Status Check (RS) as well as the Police Records Check (PRC)/Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) process. These documents are mandatory and necessary as you will be working with vulnerable people
- Been fit-tested for an N-95 (or equivalent) mask in the last two years or sooner, if a change in physiognomy occurs that may affect efficacy of determined size to wear
Minimum Experience
All nurse aides require a minimum of one (1) full time equivalent year of experience in the last five (5) years in direct patient care in a primary care, public or community health, ambulatory, nursing homes, assisted care facility, or acute care setting.
The required services/tasks may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients’ exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients’ status and document patient care on charts; administer first aid in emergency situations; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
- Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
- Carry messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- May transport patients between care facilities
- Other associated tasks relevant to this occupational group