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About the Role
The Home Health Aide / Hospice Aide will be supervised by a Registered Professional Nurse.
Responsibilities
- Assists with care of teeth and mouth.
- Assists with grooming, including shampoo, shaving, and nail care.
- Assists with bathing of patient in bed, tub, and shower.
- Assists patient in moving from bed to chair, wheelchair, and in walking.
- Assists patient with toileting.
- Assists patient with eating.
- Assists patient with dressing.
- Completes assigned incidental housekeeping in patient's living areas.
- Prepares and serves meals according to instructions, including modified diets.
- Makes and changes beds.
- Dusts and vacuums the rooms the patient uses.
- Completes dishwashing.
- Tidies bathroom.
- Lists needed supplies.
- Shops for patient if no other arrangement is possible.
- Does patient’s personal laundry if no family member is available, including ironing and mending.
- Sends linen to laundry.
- Assists with payment of bills and performs other essential errands.
- Cleans and tidies bedroom, including floors, furniture, and bedding.
- Arranges the schedule so that patient follows medical recommendations, such as increased physical activity, with guidance from the RN Care Coordinator and/or Regional Nurse Manager.
- Takes temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure when advised.
- Keeps simple records as instructed by the RN Care Coordinator or other supervising registered nurse.
- Accompanies patient to obtain medical care.
- Assists with medications that are ordinarily self-administered as instructed by the RN Care Coordinator and/or other supervising registered nurse.
- Completes routine Foley catheter care.
- Assists with changes of colostomy bag/appliance.
- Changes simple non-sterile dressing to stable wound.
- Assists with the use of devices geared to disability as aids for daily living.
- Assists with prescribed exercises as taught by appropriate professional personnel.
- Assists with prescribed skin care.
- Assists with ice cap or ice collar with guidance from RN Care Coordinator.
- Performs simple urine tests for sugar, acetone, or albumin and records results.
- Measures intake and output as ordered.
- Prepares modified diets as prescribed by physician.
- Helps patient relearn household skills.
- Obtains specimens (urine, sputum) as directed by nurse.
- Assists with postural drainage.
- Assists with oxygen equipment.
- Assists with equipment for sleep apnea.
- Adheres to and reflects organizational values in daily work.
- Serves on agency committees as may be assigned.
- Maintains obligation to report wrongdoing/violation of agency policies, applicable federal, state and local laws, and rules and regulations to immediate supervisor or identified compliance officer.
- Completes all mandatory inservice education programs and any additional required inservice hours.
Requirements
- 18 years of age or older
- Minimum 8th grade math and reading skills
- Ability to lift a minimum of 20 pounds
- Ability to perform one person transfer under routine and emergency situations
- Ability to reposition a bedbound patient alone
- Ability to sit, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, pull, climb, reach, lift, and perform repetitive movements of the upper extremities
- Acceptable driver's license and automobile available for use with current insurance
- Has successfully completed a Home Health Aide training or equivalency program approved by the NYS Dept. of Health
- Availability by telephone
- Other physical requirements as attached
Education Level
- Home Health Aide training or equivalency program approved by the NYS Dept. of Health