Home Health Aide
About The Position
The Home Health Aide provides personalized support and companionship to clients in their homes, enhancing quality of life and independence in accordance with individualized care plans. The role assists clients with activities of daily living, including personal care, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping, and transportation to appointments. The aide documents services provided and communicates changes in a client’s condition to the appropriate supervisor. Responsibilities also include helping patients with personal hygiene and grooming, keeping living areas clean and orderly, planning and preparing nutritious meals, assisting with feeding when needed, and supporting ambulation and exercise according to the plan of care. The aide may take and record vital signs and perform range-of-motion exercises or other simple procedures when ordered and when the appropriate skills competency has been completed or demonstrated.
Requirements
- Meet the training requirements in accordance with State and Federal laws.
- Be able to read, write, and verbally report clinical information to patients, representatives, caregivers, and other Home Health Agency staff, and document care provided.
- Certified Nursing Assistant: ND.
- Driver's License: ND.
- Auto insurance.
- Basic Life Support - CPR.
Nice To Haves
- Self-directing, with the ability to work with little direct supervision.
- Empathy for the needs of the ill, injured, frail, and impaired.
- Demonstrates tact, patience, and good personal hygiene.
Responsibilities
- Provide personal care, including bathing, back rubs, oral hygiene, shampoos, changing bed linens, dressing and undressing assistance, skin care to prevent breakdown, toileting, and keeping the patient’s living area clean and orderly as appropriate.
- Plan and prepare nutritious meals.
- Assist with feeding the patient when necessary.
- Take and record oral, rectal, and auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure when ordered and when the appropriate skills competency has been completed or demonstrated.
- Assist with ambulation and exercise according to the plan of care.
- Perform range-of-motion exercises and other simple procedures as an extensional therapy service when ordered and when the appropriate skills competency has been completed or demonstrated.
- Provide companionship and support clients’ independence according to individualized care plans.
- Assist with medication reminders, light housekeeping, and transportation to appointments.
- Document services provided and report changes in the client’s condition to the appropriate supervisor.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
