A Geriatric Nursing Aid provides care to elderly patients. As a Geriatric Aid, your job duties include helping patients with daily activities, duties include helping patients with daily activities such as cooking, light housekeeping, administering medications, moving bed redden patients, feeding patients. You also need to have a good physical stamina, a caring and patient personality & excellent communication skills.

Half Payment due before the start of class. Balance before the end of the first month.

• Discuss & verbilize the role of a basic healthcare provider related to elderly
  
• List the basic healthcare needs of ambulatory conscious elderly people, non – ambulatory/ bed ridden frail elderly people etc.
  
• Build a comprehensive knowledge base on basic issues in geriatric care
  
• Enhance their and capacities in councel and manage older persons who are at home, admitted in healthcare institutions.
  
• Enhance their knowledge in resource management, advocacy & related to care of oldr persons
  
• Demonstrate techniques to maintain the personal hygiene needs of an elderly patient
  
• practice infection control measures
  
• demonstrate safety, understand usage of protective devices and demonstrate precautions to take while usage of equipment and assistive devices
  
• Demonstrate professional behaviour, personal qualities and characteristics of a geriatric Care Aid
  
• Demonstrate right methods of bio- medical waste managemen
  

• Demonstrate professional behavior, personal qualities and characteristics of a geriatric Care Aid
  
• Demonstrate right methods of bio- medical waste management
  
• Demonstrate techinques to assist older persons in maintaining their activities of daily living
  
• Demonstrate Basic Life Support, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and other actions in the event of medical and facility emergencies.
  
• Demonstrate good communication, , communicate accurately and appropriately in the role of Geriatric Care Aid.
  
• Take sound decision regarding hospilitization, or timely referral to other hospitals for various care and recognizing their limitations in knowledge and skills in these areas.
  
• Getting along with, working with and co-operating with caregivers/ family members who are also taking care of older persons
  
• Reporting signs of severe illness/ deterioration to higher authorities as per timeline.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Help clients complete daily self-care activities
   
2. Administer medications
   
3. Keep patients rooms clean & comfortable
   
4. Talk with patients and provide basic companionship
   
5. Assist nurses & doctors as necessary.

Requirement & Qualifications

1. Completed Primary/ Secondary School.
   
2. Strong communication skills
   
3. Excellent physical stamina
   
4. Caring & empathetic disposition.