Overview
The Home Health Aide is responsible for performing health related tasks and may also provided assistance with personal hygiene, housekeeping and other related supportive tasks to a client in his/her home or facility under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Responsibilities
- Carries out the agencys mission, philosophy, goals and objectives within guidelines of Agency policy and position function.
- Interprets and implements the Agencys philosophy to staff and members of the community.
- Participates in the development and implementation of a realistic goal-oriented plan of care.
- Provides personal care and rehabilitative services and assists in activities of daily living as directed by the Director of Clinical Services or the supervising Registered Nurse.
- Follows care plan instructions as directed by Registered Nurse.
- Provides Nutritional Support:
- Prepares grocery list, shops as required
- Prepares meals and snacks
- Assists with feeding as needed
- Assists with Administration of Medication:
- Reminds client
- Reads label
- Brings medication, supplies, liquids to client
- Opens container
- Positions the client
- Cleans and disposes used materials
- Stores medication properly
- Assists with or performs and records Personal Care Functions:
- Preventive skin care, application of body lotion
- Bathing
- Grooming: hair shampoo, beard, nails shave, oral hygiene, teeth and denture care; assist with dressing, applies elastic stockings and cleans eye glasses
- Provides Nutritional Support:
- Assists with Mobility:
- Carries out maintenance home exercise program
- Assists with use of medical supplies and equipment
- Walking: assist with or without assistive equipment
- (cane, walker, crutches); walking inside or outside of home, use of safety belt
- Transferring, sit or stand, or position in bed, chair or wheelchair
- Provides Environment Support:
- Make/change bed linen, occupied or unoccupied
- Light housekeeping: Patient areas to include kitchen, bath, bedroom, etc., in handling tasks such as sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, cleaning; in kitchen, cleaning the sink, counters, stop top, table, refrigerator; and in the bathroom, such as the sink, toilet, tub and shower
- Clean up after meal preparation and provision of care, washes and dries dishes
- Personal laundry: clothing and bed linen, wash, iron and mend laundry
- Listing needed supplies, errands, shopping
- Maintain safe environment and clean patient equipment.
Qualifications
- Written evidence of having successfully completed a 75- hour New York State Department of Health approved:
- Basic Training Program in home health aide service OR,Equivalency Examination or Competency Only Program in home health aide services
- Compliance with In-service education requirements
- Must have compassion, patience and maturity to understand and react to clients needs
- Minimum age requirement: 18 years of age