We provide our personal care services with the promise that the dignity of our patients will be maintained at all times.
One effect of living with an injury, illness, or advanced age is that fulfilling basic tasks such as using the toilet, eating, and grooming will be a regular struggle. If your loved ones have any of these conditions, it is more likely that keeping up with their personal care is something they stress and worry about. Do not allow them to undergo these feelings of doubt and helplessness. Allow our caregivers at Angels Touch Home Care Provider to help them out.
Personal Care I
- Meal planning and preparation
- Cleaning
- Laundry
- Shopping
- Home safety
- Errands
- Escort services
- Observing and reporting the participants’ condition
- Limited assistance with financial matters, such as delivering payments to designated recipients on behalf of participants. Receipts for payment should be returned to participant.
- Assistance with communication, which includes but is not limited to, placing phone within participants’ reach and physically assisting participant with use of the phone, and orientation to daily events.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- At least 18 years of age
- Capable of evaluating companions in terms of their ability to carry out assigned duties and their ability to relate to the participant
- Able to assume responsibility for in-service training for companions
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate effectively with participant and supervisor
- Able to use the Call Care IVR System
- Capable of following a care plan with minimal supervision
- Be able to document services provided
- Follow written instructions
- Maintain a safe, clean environment and utilize proper infection control techniques
Personal Care II
Support with Activities of Daily Living
- Eating
- Bathing (bed bath, bench shower, sink bath)
- Personal grooming
- Personal hygiene
- Skin care
- Meal planning and preparation
- Assist in and out of bed
- Reposition participants as necessary
- Assist with ambulation
- Toileting and maintaining continence
- Cleaning, laundry, shopping, home safety, errands
- Monitor temperature, check pulse rate, observe respiratory rate and blood pressure
- Monitor medications, give reminders
- Errand services as necessary
- Observing and reporting the participant’s condition
- Limited assistance with financial matters, such as delivering payments to designated recipients on behalf of participants. Receipts for payment should be returned to participant
- Assistance with communication, which includes but is not limited to, placing phone within participants’ reach and physically assisting participant with use of the phone, and orientation to daily events
Requirements
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- At least 18 years of age
- Capable of evaluating companions in terms of their ability to carry out assigned duties and their ability to relate to the participant
- Able to assume responsibility for in-service training for companions
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate effectively with participant and supervisor
- Able to use the Call Care IVR System
- Capable of following a care plan with minimal supervision
- Be able to document services provided
- Follow written instructions
- Maintain a safe, clean environment and utilize proper infection control techniques
- Pass competency testing or successfully completed a competency training and evaluation program performed by an RN or LPN prior to providing services