Home Health Aide

Duties and responsibilities:

The Home Health Aide job description is much more than providing basic medical assistance patients, or as they are sometimes referred, clients.  The fact that the job is performed in someone’s home makes it unique in the health care industry. 

Tasks

• Administer prescribed oral medications under written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse and aide.
• Change dressings.
• Check patients' pulse, temperature and respiration.
• Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises and in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor or case manager.
• Massage patients and apply preparations and treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, and heat-lamp stimulation.

Average Salary: $35,000

Education:

 Home health aides must receive formal training and pass a competency test to work for certified home health or hospice agencies that receive reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid. Personal and home care aides, however, face a wide range of requirements, which vary from state to state.

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