Home Health Aide

Company:

Providence at Home with Compassus

 

Position Summary 

The Home Health Aide is a trained paraprofessional who performs basic nursing or therapy functions, such as personal care, prescribed therapeutic exercises and household services essential to providing health care at home following a specific written plan of care. The Registered Nurse Clinical Case Manager supervises the Home Health Aide and the Home Health Aide plan of care in the home. If there is not an RN on the case, then a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, or Speech Language Pathologist supervises the HHA and the POC for that case. 

 

Position Specific Responsibilities 

• Provides competent personal care as outlined on the Home Health Aide Plan of Care established by the patient, family/caregiver and case manager.  

• Care provided in a safe, comprehensive fashion, treating each patient with dignity and respect while maintaining confidentiality.  

• Performs basic nursing care as directed and instructed by the supervising nurse including taking and recording vital signs and temperature, performing simple dressing changes, assisting with routine bowel care.  

• Provides personal care, including, but not limited to, bath assist, oral and denture care, skin, hair and skin, shaving, and nail trimming.  

• Helps patient to use the bathroom or in using bedpan or commode.  

• Provides care of surgical or prosthetic appliances or devices as instructed, i.e., catheters, colostomies, leg braces, dentures, etc.  

• Assists with prescribed exercises which patient and aide have been taught by the Physical or Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse and as described in the Home Health Aide plan of care.  

• Assists patient in bed with positioning, assists patients in and out of bed, and assists with transfers and ambulation.  

• Assists patients as per agency procedure with medications that are ordinarily self-administered by the patient under the direction of the Registered Nurse.  

• Performs light housekeeping, which facilitate the patient’s self care at home and which are necessary to prevent or postpone institutionalization and are essential to the patient’s health care recovery at home.  

• Observes and reports changes in condition, body functions, and needs to the professional responsible for patients care.  

• Completes appropriate records and documentation of the status and the care and/or services furnished.  

• Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to develop, implement, and update plan of care/treatment.  

• Responds to urgent needs by prioritizing and triaging visits.  

• Communicates schedule and work plan to supervisor and/or Scheduler daily and other team members as needed/appropriate.  

• Provides patient information to Clinical Supervisor/Manager and staffing for