Home Health Aide - PDN

Position Overview

The Home Health Aide is responsible for providing personal care, household assistance and assistance with daily living activities that improve quality of life by allowing our patients to remain in their home while adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide services that are ordered by the physician in the plan of care within the scope of practice per state law
• Perform, assist, evaluate and document medical care, such as :

o Basic first aid

o Read and record vital (temperature, pulse, respiration)

o Range of motion exercises

o Ambulation, transfer and positioning with wheelchairs and other non-life support medical equipment and devices

o Prepare meals according to dietary and nutritional needs

o Care for patient's special conditions and needs within scope of authorized tasks

o Assistance with bathing, toileting, grooming, shaving, skin and nail care, oral hygiene, dressing and eating

o Home safety and sanitation

o Infection control

o General light housekeeping, laundry, and shopping specific to patient

o Maintaining and completing the necessary patient / family and Company documentation records upon conclusion of each visit

o Observe and report significant changes in patient's condition to the (RN) Nursing Supervisor

Requirements

o A Home Health Aide must receive at least 12 hours of in-service training during each 12-month period. In-service training may occur while an aide is furnishing care to a patient.

Other Skills / Abilities

Physical Requirements

Environment

CCPA Notice for Job Applicants, Contractors, and Employees Residing in California