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Follows the plan of care to provide, safe, competent care to the client.
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Helps the patient maintain good personal hygiene and assists in maintaining a healthful, safe environment.
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Plans and prepares nutritious meals, markets, when instructed to do so by the nurse.
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Assists the patient with ambulation, as ordered by the physician, and approved and supervised by the nurse.
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Assists the therapy personnel, as needed, with the rehabilitative processes.
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Encourages the patient to become as independent as possible, according to the nursing care plan.
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Attempts to promote patient's mental alertness, through involvement in activities of interest.
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Gives simple emotional, and psychological, support to the patient, and other members of the household, and establishes a relationship with patient and family, which transmit trust and confidentiality.
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Reports any change in the patient's mental, or physical, condition, or in the home situation, to the staff nurse, or to the Aide supervisor.
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Performs routine housekeeping tasks, as related to a safe and comfortable environment for the patient, as instructed by the professional nurse.
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Prepares a visit report, promptly, and incorporates same in the clinical record, weekly.
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Confirms, on a weekly basis, the scheduling of visits so that other necessary visits, by staff members, can be coordinated.
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Works with personnel of other community agencies involved in patient's care, as directed by the nurse.
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Attends in-service, as required by regulation.
