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Personal Care Assistant (PCA) Reviews
What is it like working as a Personal Care Assistant (PCA)?
June 2016
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: I love what I do I love the science and human body.
Cons: How sad it can be.
September 2015
Aged care.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Able to help the elerdly.
Making a difference in their daily life.
Cons: Poor wage.
Not enough equipment.
Under staffed.
August 2015
Aged care.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Friendships, learning lufe kessons from residents.
Having a fun happy work place.
Family friendly hours, flexibility of shifts.
Cons: Stress, low pay, crappy equipment, siace to eork in grumpy redidents.
July 2015
Be prepared to work very long hours.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
The work can be challenging especially when your client is unwell or resents having to have you there to help them. Patience and a good sense of humour helps at all times, as well as the ability to adapt to changing situations. The work is at it's best, very rewarding and it is possible to gain a great deal of satisfaction from knowing you have helped a person to maintain their dignity and independence. Treat others as you would like to be treated and you won't go far wrong.
June 2015
I love working with my clients.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Helping the client taking them out in the community and making such they get the proper care.
Cons: Pay rate no benefits or insurance no paid vacation or holidays.
April 2015
My Passion.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: I love knowing that I am making a difference in my client's lives. They need me, and I've come to realize that I need them too. They have had so much of an impact on my life.
Cons: Not everyone I work with/for loves this job as much as I do.
January 2015
Rewarding.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Helping someone know that there not a burden and that they still has something to contribute to society.
Cons: When clients are experiencing a fair amount of pain or when they've seemed to have given upon life.
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