Home Health Aide PRN

About the role

The Home Health Aide performs various services for a patient as necessary to meet the patient's personal needs with the highest level of quality to promote comfort and observes the patient then documents and reports observations and care performed in accordance with company standards and federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial support and personal care to the patient, including bathing (e.g. tub, shower, sponge, or bed bath), oral hygiene, hair care, shampooing, shaving, skin care, nail care, foot care, and dressing.
• Affords assistance with mobility, including walking, transferring, turning, and positioning including the use of transfer devices such as the Hoyer lift and transfer board.
• Affords assistance with prescribed exercises to which the patient and the aide have been trained.
• Affords assistance with toileting needs, including assistance with bedpan, urinal, bedside commode, toilet use and incontinence care.
• Plans, shops, prepares, or affords assistance with nutritious meals and prescribed diets, which includes the clean-up of kitchen area.
• Affords assistance to self-administer medications. Verbal prompts or affords assistance to patients to respond to electronic medication reminder systems.
• Affords homemaking services, such as bed making, light housework, laundering, and errand running with patient/family’s agreement or accompanying patient to medical appointments as specified on the care plan.
• Affords other activities as assigned, which may include reading and recording temperature, pulse, and respiration, Foley catheter care, basic infection control procedures, and emergency procedures.
• Observes, reports, and uses electronic medical record (EMR) system to document patient status and the care or service furnished.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in good standing on the Ohio Department of Health Nurse Aide Registry required; or Successful completion of the Medicare competency evaluation program for home health aides.
• One year experience as a home health aide in a Medicare-certified home health or hospice agency preferred.
• Knowledgeable of home health aide practices and procedures preferred.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Experience: One year experience as a home health aide in a Medicare-certified home health or hospice agency preferred.
• Knowledge: Knowledgeable of home health aide practices and procedures preferred.

Other Requirements

• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Must possess a valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
• Must be insurable under professional liability and crime coverage policies as specified by insurance carrier underwriting standards.

Working Conditions And Special Requirements

• Sitting - Up to 8 hours/day
• Standing - Up to 4 hours/day
• Walking - Up to 2 hours/day
• Lifting, transferring, pushing or pulling patients/clients or equipment/supplies - Up to 50 pounds
• Driving - Up to 6 hours/day
• Work weekends, evenings, and holidays - Required as scheduled
• Subject to falls, burns from equipment, odors, and cuts - Work day
• Subject to patients with various disease processes - Occasional
• May be exposed to infectious waste, disease, conditions, etc. including exposure to the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses - Work day
• Risk Category for Exposure to Bloodborne Diseases - I