Certified Home Health Aide

Upham’s Corner Health Committee, Inc./dba/Upham’s Corner Health Center

Primary Function:

Under the direction of a Registered Nurse or Therapist, the Home Health Aide assists clients with personal care activities of daily living. The HHA reports to the HHA Nurse Supervisor.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Personal Care:

• Helps patient with bath, care of mouth, skin and hair
• Helps patients to bathroom or in using bedpan
• Helps with ambulating, i.e., transfer from bed, use of wheelchair, walker, etc.
• Helps patient with prescribed exercise, which the patient and appropriate professional personnel have taught Home Health Aide.
• Prevents deformities through body alignment in bed or out of bed, helps patient with prescribed exercises.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform selected activities once supervised by the RN/therapist including, ostomy bag and skin care, reinforce a dressing, change a non-sterile dressing, ambulation with a device, assist with prescribed skin care, perform urine sugar tests, measure intake and output
• Provides emotional stimulation and support.

Home Management: Performs such incidental household services as are essential to the patient’s health care at home.

• Caring for the patient’s environment, i.e., light personal laundry, and light cleaning.
• Teaching management skills to family members
• Promoting and assuring a safe environment

Team Member Functions:

• Reports to the nurse or therapist changes in the patient’s condition or family situation
• Attends case conferences as requested
• Required to attend minimum of 12 hours of in-service programs per year

Qualifications

Minimum Basic Knowledge:

• Completion of a 75 hour Homemaker/Home Health Aide Training Program.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience in care of ill or disabled individuals, home management and meal preparation.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
• Mature, flexible, responsible and a sympathetic individual.
• Compliance with Infection Control and PPE Protocols.
• Other languages Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese and Haitian Creole a plus.

Independent Action:

As stated above.

Supervisory Responsibility:

None.

Define Access Level to PHI:

[Authorized to access only certain limited categories of PHI and certain limited sections of the UCHC patient’s medical record that are necessary to perform job duties, whether treatment, payment or operations duties.  Staff in this category level should confine the use of PHI to the minimum necessary required and should not access or read parts of the medical record not needed to perform assigned duties.]