Home Health Aides
Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
Also called: Caregiver · Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) · Certified Medical Aide (CMA) · Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) · Home Attendant · Home Care Aide
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Top skills employers ask for
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- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
- Writing
- Speaking
- Active Learning
- Learning Strategies
- Mathematics
- Science
What they actually do
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- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Bathe patients.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
Tools & technology
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Oracle Database
- Python
- Salesforce software
- SAP software
- UNIX
- AIGHD OASIS
- FaceTime
- Mi-Co software
- Microsoft Exchange
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
Knowledge areas
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Psychology
- Public Safety and Security
- Administration and Management
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Telecommunications
- Law and Government