Home Health Aide

Responsibilities/Qualifications:

Home Health Aides are needed in the Howell area.

The Home Health Aide is trained to provide personal care and related services in the home. She/he functions under the direction, instruction and supervision of the Registered/Supervising Nurse.

The Home Health Aide provides the following:

• Applies appropriate and safe techniques in helping the patient to maintain good person hygiene
• Assists in maintaining a healthful, safe environment.
• Plans and prepares nutritious meals.
• Assists the patient with ambulation. Uses safe transfer and ambulation techniques.
• Reading and recording temperature, pulse and respiration.
• Maintains basic infection control procedures.
• Recognizes emergencies with knowledge of emergency procedures.
• Assists the therapy personnel as needed with rehabilitative process. Understands normal range of motion and positioning.
• Encourages the patient to become as independent as possible according to the nursing care plan.
• Attempts to promote patient’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest
• Gives simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and other members of the household.
• Establishes a relationship with patient and family, which transmit trust and confidentiality.
• Prepares a report of her visit on the day it is performed and incorporates it in the clinical record weekly.
• Reports any change in body functions and/or mental status in the home situation and the care or service provided to her immediate supervisor, the staff nurse, or the aide supervisor.
• Performs routine housekeeping task as related to a clean environment for the patient.
• Respect for patient’s rights, privacy and property

Critical Demands:

• Visual/hearing ability sufficient to comprehend written/verbal communication.
• Ability to perform tasks involving physical activity, which may include heavy lifting and extensive, bending and standing.
• Must be able to meet the physical demands of providing patient care, ambulating patients, transferring patients, assisting with exercise, etc.
• Must be able to transfer patients, as needed, according to proper techniques of body mechanics.
• Ability to deal effectively with stress.
• Free from health problems that may be injurious to the patient and evidence of good personal health habits.
• Has emotional and mental maturity necessary for establishing and maintained a good work relationship with patient, patient’s family and Agency personnel.

Qualifications:

• High school graduate.
• Ability to read and write consistent with job requirements.
• Possession of certificate issued by Hospice and Homecare Foundation/National Association of Home Care OR Completion of Governing Body approved Skills Demonstration and NLN written test.
• Has reliable means of transportation.
• Good communication skills.
• Experience in-home health care or related health care field preferred.