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Home Health Aid
Posted under: Nursing jobs by Nursing Reference
What is home health aid? Well the home health aid were mainly employed by home health care services, nursing and residential care facilities and social assistance agencies.
Home health aides spend their duties at patient’s homes of residential care facilities. This type of profession due their role or working with patients who need a long term care. Most of the home health aides are work for their patients for a couple of month or even years.
This is under the direction of nursing or medical staff; they provide health-related services, such as administering oral medications. They also supervise under the registered nurse, physical therapist, or social worker who keeps records of the services they perform and record each patient’s condition and progress. The aides report changes in a patient’s condition to the supervisor or case manager. Anyway, most of them are not staying on the patient’s house because they work on a number of different patients but each job lasting a few hours, days, or weeks and they are often visit different patients on the same day.
Home health aides are demand because they gain jobs faster than other aides, and the patients are can safe must money because treatment on the hospital is really expensive. Home health aides served their duty for those patients who are bedridden, elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons live in their own homes instead of health care facilities.
But the types of rendering care for the patients are depend on the patient’s condition and specialty of the home health aides.
As like on nursing aides, the home health aides may provide basic intervention such as: monitor and taking vital signs (pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate), promote and assist health wellness of the patients (taking a bath, change non sterile dressing, assist on walking, provide skin care and give massage ), provide a medicines as prescribe.
Home health aides are only trained by the registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, or experienced aides although this is not generally required to have a secondary diploma. But there Federal Government has guidelines for home health aides whose employers receive reimbursement from Medicare. The Federal law requires a trainee to pass the competency test covering a wide range of areas. And the said test will require the trainee to exploit their career because they have a license.
