Advance Personal Care Aide’s responsibilities include:

• Assisting clients with personal hygiene by giving baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves.
• Assisting with transfers and lifts. 
• Assisting with transfer to and from the bathroom.
• Assisting with activities of daily living by serving meals, feeding clients as necessary, ambulating, turning and positioning clients. 
• Providing fresh water and nourishment between meals. 
• Providing ostomy hygiene care to a well-healed stoma site, external catheter care, and bowel program care (e.g., administering enemas, etc.).
• Applying prescription ointment and non-sterile dressings.
• Assisting with passive range of motion.
• Assisting with toileting of clients who are incontinent or diapered.
• Assisting with oral medication and organizing medication set up per plan of care. 
• Maintaining clients’ stability by checking vital signs and weight. 
• Recording intake and output information. 
• Reporting abnormal observations of clients to nursing supervisor. 
• Documenting actions by completing nursing forms, reports, logs, and records. 
• Maintaining work operations by following policies and procedures. 
• Protecting Agape In Home & Health Care’s values by keeping clients’ information confidential and adhering to professional state and federal laws. 
• Updating job knowledge by participating in educational in-service training and maintaining current licensure.