Caregiver

Job description:

• Explain medical instructions to patients and family members.

• Administer medications and treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, and douches, as directed by a physician or nurse. Restrain patients if necessary.

• Observe patients conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.

• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.

• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.