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Personal
Care Employment
Skills
learned while caring for my parents’ ending January 2013
Housekeeping,
running errands, meal preparation, personal care, transportation, writer for
mail, basic exercise, household safety, dressing, assisted with doctor
appointments, bathing
Preformed
in home: Bandage changes with gloves on, ointment application (with swabs,
cotton balls, or gauze), medication (pill) splitting and crushing of
self-administered prescriptions
In home
equipment used: Wheel chair rental, cane, shower chair, commode, humidifier,
inhaling machines (for medication, humidity, and oxygen), GI feeding system for
nutrition, gravity flow I.V., C. A. D. D. pump I.V., suction machine
In
Home Supportive Services January 2005 to January 2013
The
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program provides services to people over 65
years of age, blind and disabled. The goal of this program is to allow people
to remain safely in their own homes and avoid the need for out of home care.
Services
covered: meal preparation, and cleanup, feeding, bowel and bladder care,
bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, laundry, shopping for food
Domestic
services: sweeping, vacuuming, washing, and waxing floors; washing kitchen
counters, and sinks; cleaning the bathroom; storing food and supplies; taking
out garbage; dusting and picking up; changing bed linens
Caring
Movement Towards:
Supporting
people of special populations
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