Health

Health Care:

• Identify and refer situations that require further attention to the appropriate personnel; e.g. sick child referred to nurse; family with no food referred to welfare worker/council; child abuse / neglect referred to ICFS.
• Maintain contact with the elderly and monitoring their nutritional status and general state of health.
• Accompany the nurse for prenatal and postnatal home care visits.
• Counsel and monitor chronically ill diabetics and discuss their status with the nurse.
• the doctor and nurse on home visits to the acutely ill.
• Taking blood sugar and blood pressures.
• Weighing patients.
• Assist nurses during Doctor’s day.
• Prepare dental consent forms at the beginning of the school term and distributing these to both schools.
• Prepare first aid kits for the schools, daycare, bush workers, etc.
• Assist in emergencies.

Assisting Liaising:

• To attend conferences and workshops on health issues as requested by the Councillor in Charge or Health Director.
• To attend meetings regularly with members of the health care delivery team to discuss matters of mutual concern including programs, projects, problems and clients
• Serve as an interpreter for the elderly on doctor’s day and when other who are direct/indirectly involved with health visit the community

Support Administration Activities:

• Pulling charts when requested
• Sterilizing medical equipment
• Accompany some patients especially the elderly and school children to out of town medical and optometrist appointments
• Handle and file medical charts
• Search for medical files for names of children who are school age
• Xerox medical records to other health centers when children move
• Clean the clothing storage room
• Search for public health records for children living off reserve
• Substitute for secretary/receptionist when she is away
• Prepare and submit a monthly written report for the Health Committee
• Attend, upon request, the Health Committee meetings