Resident care associate vs care partner

Differences between resident care associate and care partner duties and responsibilities

Resident care associate example responsibilities.

• Assist Alzheimer patients with daily activities including personal care, administering medications and communicating with their families.
• Assist in rehabilitation to transfer home.
• Have been train to administer medication, CPR train, and mechanical lift train.
• Maintain cleanliness throughout med pass, and practice aseptic technique when pouring and assisting with medication.
• Assist with ADL's, medication assistance, dinning room service, answering the telephones and front desk monitoring.
• Care for residents with diagnosis such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and arthritis.
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Care partner example responsibilities.

• Manage CMS, state, and complaint surveys.
• Manage shelterpractices and evaluate various volunteering, outreach, foster, rescue, and pet placement programs.
• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Direct motion capture shoots for adding more animation to existing characters for crowd simulation.
• Comfort care and ADL's, including range of motion exercises and encouraging early mobility in post-op patients.
• Work on the Neurosurgery/Neuroscience unit caring for step down patients from the ICU, seizure patients and stroke patient.
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