Home Health Aid

Home Health Aid

Duties and Responsibilities: A home health aide provides care that has to do with personal care and health services. They normally provide care for a variety of people that would need care provided by a home health aide such as

·         Aging/Elderly

·         Long Term or Terminal illness

·         Hospice

·         Physically disabled

·         Convalescent

·         Children and adults with psychical or mental illnesses and disabilities

Home health aides have many duties including

·         Taking vital signs

·         Assist in exercise or therapy

·         Change patient to surgical dressing

·         Administer prescribed medication

·         Emotional or Psychological support

·         Move patient as needed

·         Carry on conversations with the patient

·         Purchase necessary ingredients needed for proper diet

·         Help with daily hygiene needs

·         provide assistance in any daily needs

·         Change bed sheets as needed

Salary: 25,000$-27,000$

Education: Possible career prospectors should have a high school diploma and a required nursing program certificate.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be a Home Health Aid? Why or why not?

 I would maybe like to be a HHA because I like the medical field and like helping people.