Home Health Aides

Home Health Aides

Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.

Key Competencies * Integrity * Self Control * Dependability * Concern for Others * Attention to Detail * Cooperation * Stress Tolerance * Adaptability/Flexibility * Social Orientation * Independence

Representative Tasks * Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming. * Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager. * Bathe patients.

Industry

Health Care & Social Assistance,

Job Family Healthcare Support

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