Home Health Aide - Blue Ridge PT Days

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Morganton, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a part-time Home Health Aide position with Blue Ridge Home Health Aides, requiring 24 hours per week. The role involves providing competent patient care, assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs) to help them reach their functional status goals, and monitoring for changes in patient condition. The aide will also perform personal care needs, ensure patient safety, take vital signs, provide skin care, and change linens and clothing. The position requires the ability to work independently, maintain a professional schedule, cooperate with team members, and be comfortable with issues of death and dying, providing a calm presence. Effective communication skills are essential for interacting with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Documentation of patient care must adhere to agency, state, federal, and accrediting organization standards, while maintaining patient confidentiality. The role also involves participating in quality improvement processes, demonstrating cost-effective measures, assisting with problem identification, and ensuring patient satisfaction. Adherence to regulatory requirements, including annual inservice hours, hospice education hours, OSHA requirements, and state/HIPAA training, is mandatory. Professionalism, flexibility in scheduling, self-direction in maintaining skills, and commitment to organizational goals are also key aspects of the role.

Requirements

High school education or equivalent.
One year nurse’s aide experience.
RN nursing students that meet state requirements.
Recognize the needs and behaviors of a variety of age groups of patients treated, understand child growth and development, i.e. understand adolescent behavior and look for signs of normal aging.
Written and verbal competency of the English language.
Must be certified as a nursing assistant in the state in which the teammate works.
A valid driver’s license issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Must be able to travel to all of the service office boundaries in all extremes of weather on all types of road including expressways.
Must be able to assist with ambulation including turning and transferring patients up to 200 pounds.
Required to make visits to private residences which may not be accessible to people with disabilities.
Ability to lift up to 35 pounds without assistance.
For patient lifts of over 35 pounds, or when patient is unable to assist with the lift, patient handling equipment is expected to be used, with at least one other associate, when available.
Unique patient lifting/movement situations will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates competent home health aide skills.
Promotes patients to reach functional status goals by providing assistance with ADL’s following the HHA assignment record in rendering patient care and maintaining safety.
Notes changes in patient’s condition requiring further attention, informs the case manager, or the RN/Supervisor and documents accordingly.
Understands the hospice philosophy, comfortable providing specialized care to the terminally ill.
Performs personal care needs, feeding patient, laundry, light cleaning of patient room and washing.
Meeting safety needs of patient using equipment safely and properly.
Taking temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure as directed by the home health aide assignment sheet when assigned.
Provides skin care and changing patient position to prevent breakdown as assigned.
Changing patient bed linens and clothing as requested by the patient and family.
Exhibits the ability to work independently.
Attends to personal work schedule in a consistent and professional manner.
Demonstrates ability to cooperate and work well with team members.
Secure with issues of death and dying. Provides a calm manner when in a patient’s home.
Utilizes appropriate communication skills and effective interpersonal skills with all customers.
Actively participates in achieving patient outcomes through case conferencing and IDG’s.
Prepares documentation reflecting patient’s care; adheres to documentation as required by agency, state, federal, and Accrediting Organization standards with time frames.
Maintains patient confidentiality, observing of HIPPA/ Privacy acts.
Demonstrates cost-effective measures in patient care.
Assists with problem identification and solutions.
Participates in quality, improvement projects when assigned.
Demonstrates measures to ensure patient satisfaction.
Maintains annual inservice hours, Hospice education hours and OSHA requirements.
Cooperates in scheduling of required supervisory visits.
Provides home health aide services in accordance with all regulatory rules and standards.
Meets the training requirements of State and HIPPA.
Demonstrates flexibility in scheduling to support department and other service offices when needed.
Identifies own developmental needs and contributes to learning plan.
Demonstrates self-direction for maintaining home health aide skills.
Demonstrates commitment and supports team, office, company and organizational goals.