Home Health Aide
- Make a difference by providing essential care and support to those in need at home.
- Impact lives by assisting with daily activities and ensuring patient well-being.
- Unique role offering personal connections and diverse daily tasks in healthcare.
💰 Earn $33K-$35K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
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.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Bathe patients.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Working with my hands
- Relating with or serving others
You are skilled in 💫
- Service Orientation
- Critical Thinking
- Writing
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Having freedom
- Personal relationships
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Home Health Aide
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Pathways to this Career
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