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Home Health Aide

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credenza healthBeachwood, OHtoday

Occupations

Home Health AidesPersonal Care AidesNursing Assistants

Industries

Services for the Elderly and Persons with DisabilitiesHome Health Care ServicesAll Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services
Home Health Service Position The Home Health Service is responsible for providing personal care to clients in accordance with established community services procedures or as directed by supervisor.
Essential Qualifications: Home Health Aide Training Course Completion High School Graduate/GED Coursework related to care of the elderly. Two years CNA experience in home health care preferred Experience in caring for the elderly Experience in caring for physically dependent people Caring, concerned, sensitive Able to work and speak respectfully to clients of all ages and diagnoses Equipment Used (including but not limited to): Wheelchairs, Hoyer Lift, Bedside Commode, Automobile, Gait Belts, Appliances of Clients, Walkers, Telephones, Shopping Carts, Canes
Essential Job Functions:
  • Be on time and dressed in a professional manner as indicated in Home Health Aide handbook.
  • Provide personal care to the client, including bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, shaving, skin care, hand and foot care, and dressing.
  • Assist client with mobility, including walking, transferring, turning and positioning using good body mechanics. Assist client with prescribed exercises that the client and the aide have been taught by appropriate personnel.
  • Assist client with toileting needs, including assistance with bedpan/bedside commode, toilet use and care of incontinence.
  • Plan, shop, prepare, or assist with nutritious meals and prescribed diets; includes clean up of kitchen area; feed those in need of assistance.
  • Remind clients to take medications that ordinarily are self-administered and that are prescribed by the client's physician and are set up by a nurse.
  • Provide homemaking services, such as bed making, light housework, laundering, errand running with client/family's agreement or accompanying client to medical appointments (as specified on Plan of Care)
  • Perform or assist with activities necessary to maintain a healthy, safe environment.
  • Document activities on timesheet.
  • Perform other related duties that may become necessary or appropriate.
  • Act as a companion and meet socialization needs of the clients.
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Level

JuniorL3

Location

Beachwood, OH

Occupation

Home Health Aides

Industry

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

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