Restorative Aide

Restorative Aide

Provides resident care support under the direction of a licensed therapist. Assists residents to participate in tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance their performance. A restorative aide's duties and responsibilities include assisting patients with transfers, walking, strength training, and range of motion exercises, documenting service and changes in the patient's conditions, assisting patients with dressing or grooming, applying and monitoring splinting, and helping with amputation and prosthesis care.

Responsibilities include:

• Carrying out individual restorative programs designed by the Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist.
• Communicating observations of residents' conditions, preventing residents' neglect, abuse, and violations of rights and privacy, and promoting continuity of care through accurate and timely documentation and reporting.
• Sanitization of whirlpools, tubs, and showers when used in restorative therapy, and assisting residents with ambulation and transfer as needed.
• Performing restorative care treatments.
• Encouraging residents to perform or participate in daily ADL functions.
• Demonstrating to residents and staff, as necessary, the procedures involved in the treatment process.
• Recommending modifications and changes in the resident's restorative care as indicated.
• Instructing and supervising resident during therapy.
• Briefing residents of procedures involved in restorative care and preparing the necessary equipment.
• Preparing resident for treatment by dress/position and administering restorative care in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Reassuring resident before and during therapy treatment.
• Ensuring that all restorative care notes are informative and descriptive of the treatment provided and of the resident's response to the care.
• Ambulating residents in accordance with the resident's plan of care.
• Providing a range of motion (ROM) in accordance with the resident's plan of care.

Position Requirements:

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must hold current CNA Certification in State employed.
• A minimum of three months' prior Nursing Assistant experience in long-term care is preferred.
• Current First Aid and CPR

An Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)