Different Kinds of Caregivers In Canada
October 28, 2009
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When applying for a Caregiver job in Canada, be sure to ask your employer first for your job description. Being a Caregiver entails a lot of things so it is better to be sure first of the things expected of you to be sure that you really are qualified to do them. Here are some Caregiver job descriptions you can expect:
1. Live-In Caregiver
Being a Live-In Caregiver means that you will be living with your employer or in Nursing Homes and may be expected to do also some household chores like doing the laundry, ironing clothes, cooking and dish washing so be sure to know how to operate hi-tech gadgets that will be used to perform these duties. Also, you may be assigned to take care either of a child, an elderly or a person with disability. Be sure to ask what kind of person you will take care of to further prepare for the job.
2. Non-medical Caregiver / Hospice Caring
This is the term being used for Caregivers based in the hospitals or homes. They are like nurses who take care of different people. Unlike Live-In Caregivers, they have limited interaction with their patients since they take care of a lot of different people.
These caregivers comprehensive assistant to patients and or elderly, ill or terminally ill patience who wish to live independently. You provide nursing assistant, companionship and may run errands.
3. Housekeeper
In this line of work, you are specifically tasked to do just housework. Again, because of the increasing popularity of this Caregiver job description, there is now a curriculum being honed specifically for that. But for the meantime, there is a portion in the curriculum of Caregiving that tackles housekeeping. This teaches prospective Caregivers how to use the gadgets specifically found abroad and how to perform the task well. It also teaches Caregiver students how to sanitize their surrounding to really keep the place of work clean and germ free.
Caregiver Health and Blues
October 26, 2009
Being in a far away land can be a heart breaker but a man must eat and a Caregiver’s salary can provide man with all its necessities. So what to do to battle the blues? Here are some suggestions:
1. Get a Hobby
A caregiver job is a job that will not give you a lot of free time so when you do have your break make sure that you do something that you will really enjoy. Finding something that you enjoy and may eventually become passionate about can help pass time and eventually ease your boredom and home sickness. Treat this also as a learning experience, a platform that will teach you something new.
2. Get Around
Visiting places and seeing something new every once in a while will help in easing your home sickness. New experiences and places will help you enjoy your stay more in a foreign land and make you forget your loneliness. Remember, not everybody gets a chance to visit and in your case live in a a foreign land. It is time for you to take advantage of that blessing.
3. Get Acquainted
Try to meet different people of different culture and you will find yourself appreciating your situation more. Being exposed to different nationalities can be lots of fun. It’ll be like a daily adventure. The United States and Canada is a melting pot of different nationalities and personalities. If you don’t have a family back home, you may even find the love of your life here. So don’t hide in your routine and inside your employer’s home.
4. Connect with the Community
As they say, Filipinos can be found everywhere in the world especially in the United States and Canada. So be sure to join the Filipino Community nearest you. Connecting with fellow Filipinos will help make you feel that you are back home especially when you do Filipino traditions together like goiing to Sunday Mass or having a Filipino style picnic which feature Filipino dishes. Being around your kababayans will definetely be the cure for home sickness you are looking for!
Traits Employers Look For in a Caregiver
October 22, 2009
In this day and age where job competition is stiff, it is not enough that you possess that Caregiver diploma. Employers now looks for certain traits in their candidates that will help determine if they will be good in their field or not. What are those traits? Read on:
Patience
A caregiver job entails a lot of patience since you will be dealing with children, the elderly or the sick. It takes a very special person to really understand the special circumstances needed in this job. If you have a very short temper then the caregiver profession is not for you. It will just leave you frustrated as time went on.
Hardworking
A lazy person will not be a succesful in this field of profession. A caregiver is always at his or her feet doing everything he or she can for the patients under their care. Laziness will most probably result in negligence and this will most likely put you in jail or get you sued.
Cleanliness
Employers are looking for people that can take care of themselves. After all, how will you take care of others if you can’t take care of yourself right? So be sure to be always clean and presentable in the job especially when you are still just applying for a caregiver post.
Trustworthy
People will be entrusting the lives of their loved ones in the hands of the caregivers and of course with it will be possessions so it’s natural that they will be looking for people who will not rip them off. It is hard enough to have some stranger live with you but someone who has the tendency to steal is enough to make you run for the hills.
Caring
Probably the most important trait of all. It is one of the profession’s root word after all. Being a caregiver is not just a job. It is something where you put your heart and soul in. In order for caregivers to be effective, they need to give their 100% . This is actually one of the reasons why a lot of countries opt to get Filipinos as caregivers for their loved ones. They are sure that they loved ones will be cared of by not just anybody but by a “family member.”
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