Physical, Sensory & Mental Requirements:
Primary Physical Requirements:
1. Lift up to 10 lbs.: Frequently required to lift medical charts, supplies, and residents’ personal items, i.e., clothing and food items.
- Lift 11 to 25 lbs.: Occasionally may be required when dealing with boxes, files or medical equipment.
- Lift 26 to 50lbs.: Occasionally required when assisting with resident care.
- Lift over 50 lbs.: Required when transferring a non-ambulatory resident weighing over 100 pounds. Two aids are typically utilized when resident is unusually heavy or combative. Employee must follow specific protocols related to individual resident’s care and transfer procedures.
- Reach above shoulder height: Occasionally occurs when reaching for medical records, supplies, and linens located on shelves.
- Reach at shoulder height: May be required when assisting residents in eating, when changing bed linens, when taking vital signs, providing treatments and when assisting with certain activities of daily living.
- Reach below shoulder height: Occasionally occurs while providing treatments, taking vital signs and/or assisting with activities of daily living.
- Push/Pull: Frequently required when assisting a resident in a wheelchair: which rolls easily across tile, vinyl or carpeted floor.
Hand Manipulation:
- Grasping: Frequently grasping while working with files, answering the phone, assisting during resident care and/or completing documentation.
- Handling: Assisting with residents’ personal items, blood pressure gauge, thermometer, and other equipment related to activities of daily living.
- Supplies and Equipment: Blood pressure gauge, thermometer, wound care supplies, diabetic supplies, syringes and other nursing care items.
Other Physical Consideration:
- Twisting: Occasionally may occur while transferring resident.
- Bending: Frequently occurs while taking vital signs, assisting residents in activities of daily living.
- Squatting: Occasionally may occur while communicating with a resident in a wheelchair and/or when assisting with certain activities of daily living.
- Kneeling: Occasionally may occur while assisting with resident care.
- Stair Climbing: Occasional. Elevators are available.
- Sit-to-Stand: Frequent.
- Sitting: Frequent for long periods, occasionally up to 2 to 3 hours at a time.
Work Surface:
Varies from carpeting, vinyl to tile. When seated, typically an office-type chair.
Cognitive and Sensory Requirements:
- Talking: Necessary for communicating with residents, family members, other aides, and other members of the community. Must be able to speak English fluently.
- Hearing: Necessary for taking instruction from physicians and requests from residents. Must be able to understand English fluently.
- Sight: Necessary for doing job correctly and effectively. Must be able to write and read English fluently.
- Smelling: Smelling is required for accurate maintenance and detection of wounds, urinary tract problems, etc.
5. Reading and writing: Necessary for written communication and following written instructions