Period: 2016 to 2019
Country: Taiwan
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a 70+-year-old lady with lung cancer and diabetes.
- Assisted in walking with walking frame. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
- Suctioning (oral) during hospitalisation, Nebulizer. Assisted with oxygen therapy.
- Monitored blood glucose levels.
- Administered enema
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, sponging (for the last 3 months before elderly passed away), toileting, changing diapers (during night and at outside), dressing, feeding, walking, getting into and out of bed.
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to change diapers.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in ROM exercises.
- Prepared medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until she passed away in 2017.
- After the elderly passed away, cared for her son, a 50-year-old man with kidney disease.
- Assisted in changing clothes and showering (if the employer felt dizzy due to sickness).
- Shared a room with the employer as sometimes he may feel unwell and to give water. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to go toileting (if he is sick, then go inside, if he is not sick the wait outside).
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Prepared medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments by herself.
- Performed housework.
- Finished contract and returned home.
Period: 2014 to 2016
Country: Taiwan
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 80+-year-old man with COPD. The elderly weighed 50+kg.
- Assisted in walking. After 1 years of care, elderly became wheelchair-bound.
- NGT feeding, Suctioning (oral), Suctioning (nasal), Nebulizer. Assisted with oxygen therapy.
- Indwelling urinary catheter care, administered suppository (bullet), enema and performed manual evacuation.
- Basic wound care for bedsores.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, walking, getting into and out of bed (initially), transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa (after 1 year), turning & positioning (including at night).
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to change diapers, turn and position.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in ROM exercises.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping.
- Cared for the elderly until he passed away.
Period: 2011 to 2014
Country: Taiwan
Title: Nursing Aid
Setting: Nursing Home at Dai Chung Hospital
- As she was working at a nursing home, she cared for around 6 to 8 patients (there were total of 25 patients and were divide equally by 3 to 4 colleagues depending on shifts) with stroke, dementia and diabetes.
- She works on shift basis and shift is from 8am to 8pm or 8pm to 8am and take care of bedbound, wheelchair-bound elderly.
- NGT feeding, PEG Tube feeding, Suctioning (oral), Suctioning (tracheal), Nebulizer. Assisted with oxygen therapy.
- Monitored blood glucose levels.
- Indwelling urinary catheter care, administered suppository (bullet), enema and performed manual evacuation.
- Stoma care.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, sponging, toileting, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in rehabilitation exercises, physiotherapy.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Finished contract and returned home.
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