When you have an interview for a senior care position, you might be mostly concerned with the questions the interviewer is going to ask you. Do you have the training needed for the position? The specific experience needed? But just as they want to know specifics about who they’re interviewing, there are questions a caregiver should ask during the interview, too, in order to determine if the opportunity is right for them.<\/p>
“It’s very important to find out ahead of time what’s going to be expected of you in a job,” says Carol Gleason of Brewster, New York, a certified nursing assistant (CNA) who has worked with seniors in private care situations as well as at assisted living facilities. “You might be asked to lift a patient who’s too heavy for you, or to use a Hoyer lift [an apparatus used to transfer patients to the shower or tub], which you need to be trained to use. You also have to be qualified to dispense medication, usually a nurse will do that.”<\/p>
To make sure a job is the right fit for you, here are 20 questions caregivers should ask when interviewing for a senior care position, according to Gleason, Cindy Jekels, recruitment and retention manager at Comfort Keepers<\/a> and Guerdy Duclosel, a CNA in Darien, Connecticut. <\/p> “It’s very important to find out ahead of time what’s going to be expected of you in a job.”<\/p>— Carol Gleason, certified nursing assistant<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>Key takeaways<\/h3>
Basic questions caregivers should ask about the job:<\/h2>
Questions caregivers should ask about the client’s health and needs:<\/h2>
Questions caregivers should ask about the home:<\/h2>
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