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At our Registry, we know that each client has his or her own set of personal needs. Often, these needs can be very specific. To accomodate each clients' individual needs, our Registry has five separate levels of caregiving professionals:
Hospital Sitters
As the name suggests, Hospital Sitters are caregivers whose primary responsibility is spending time with a patient when the patient's family and friends can not be present. Sitters provide peace of mind to the families and friends of a patient, who take comfort in knowing that there is a caring and attentive sitter right at their loved one's side to make absolutely sure their loved one gets the care that he or she needs.
Sitters are an especially valuable resource to families who are unable to take time off from work to be with their loved one around the clock, or families whose loved one may be farther away. Sitters are also very useful to patients who might feel uneasy in a hospital environment.
Personal Care Assistants (PCAs)
Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) provide daily living and routine personal care services. PCA's are responsible, compassionate, cheerful, and patient caregivers.
A PCAs routine varies depending on the client's specific needs. Their duties often include: cleaning, doing laundry, and changing bed linens for their client, helping their client out of bed, bathing and dressing their client, and sometimes grooming their clients as well. PCAs may also plan meals, shop for food, and cook for a client; this is especially important when a client has specific dietary needs. PCAs can also provide psychological support to their patients and instruction families.
In home health care agencies, the registered nurse (or social worker) can work hand-in-hand with a PCA, assigning the PCA specific duties and supervising them.
Live-In PCA's
Live-In PCAs provide a similar set of services to part-time PCAs, but are often preferable to part-time PCAs because they are always accessable to clients who may need a more constant level of care.
Live-in PCAs are ideal for patients who wish to maintain their independance. A Live-in PCA can make it possible for your loved one to remain living at home by performing some of the tasks that your loved one may no longer be able to do daily.
Certified Nurses Aides (CNAs)
Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), or Nurses Aides, work under the supervision of a nurse, providing assistance to patients with daily living tasks as well as providing vital information on patient conditions to the supervising nurse.
CNAs are responsible for services including: bathing, grooming and feeding patients, assisting nurses (often with medical equipment), and checking a patient's vitals. CNAs also provide patients with important one-on-one social and emotional support.
CNAs are specially trained in basic nursing skills, anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and infection control.
Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)
and Registered Nurses (RNs)
RNs are highly-trained caregivers that have completed either a 4-year Bachelor's of Science degree in Nursing program, an Associate Degree in nursing program, or a hospital-administered Diploma program.
Because of their extensive training, RNs represent the highest level of patient care available. RNs can provide a wide range of services to their clients, including: keeping patient's medical histories, diagnostic testing for their patients and analyzing test results, operating medical machinery, administering treatment and medicine, and much much more.
RNs can also teach their patient's families how to care for their loved one. This may include providing dietary and exercise advice to the family of a patient, phsyical therapy suggestiong, or even education on spotting harmful diseases.
LPNs are also very skilled caregivers, having completed at least one full year of advanced job training. LPNs work under a phsyician or RN when providing care to a client; but unlike a PCA, an LPN may administer injections, collect lab samples, and preform other tasks that a PCA can not.
All Caregivers are carefully screened, including criminal background checks.