It has been several years since actively worked as caregiver. I was certified in Michigan through Beaumont Hospital in 1999. I would like to start working in this field again. I need to know what steps are needed to get hired in Clearwater area and for an agency or self searching.
(Sorry to offer your advice up as an example, Ladee, but the good-hearted suffer more with caregiving stress, and you are good-hearted). The original poster needs all the facts.
There are great rewards to caregiving when and if you are allowed to assist in making positive changes in another person's life. Those rewards are not financial, and not always acknowledged. Your ideals are to be commended, I sincerely hope that you can make it work.
Maybe this will pass.
Be sure to take a few classes in comedy so you can survive caregiving.
Maybe you could specialize in the electronic inventions side of things by adapting
a modified taser for use in especially dangerous caregiving situations, but I hear they have special helmets for that now.
Or, visit our friend on the thread: CV help. (Looking up the actual name, be back soon)
Or, (so sorry, lol, just to be funny, no offense intended), start wiping and just learn from there?
Keeping in mind you will have a learning curve, regardless of how long you have been out of caregiving. Decide if you want to work for one person, a couple, or have more than one client a day. Be clear about what hours you can and will work, and if you do choose to go with a family, you get to interview them too. Good luck. I am trying my best to get OUT of caregiving. But have been doing it for over 20 yrs and way past burnout. Keep us updated.