Certified Home Health Aide

Education

All of our Home Health Aide staff are certified and registered prior to patient care delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities

A home health aide assists in providing nursing care by performing simple unskilled nursing tasks. Activities may include:

• Assisting with activities of daily living.
• Encouraging client in self-help.
• Turning and positioning patients.
• Assisting with ambulation.
• Assisting client to chair, bed commode
• Giving bedpan and urinal.
• Assisting/giving bath: Complete, Partial, Tub, Shower
• Measuring and recording intake and output.
• Providing oral hygiene including care of dentures.
• Providing care of the hair.
• Changing bed linen.
• Taking and recording TPR
• Changing simple dressings (non-sterile technique).
• Preparing simple meals following dietary instructions.
• Assisting with eating.
• Maintaining clean and neat environment.
• Informing supervisor of any change in client condition or family situation.