Home Health Aide

Qualifications:

The Home Health Aide must successfully complete a training and evaluation program or must successfully pass a competency evaluation program.

If the Home Health Aide has not been employed as an Home Health Aide in the previous 24 months, they must again successfully complete a training and competency evaluation program prior to providing care/services as an Home Health Aide.  

The Home Health Aide must be able to read, write, and pass an agency competency teat with a score of 75% or greater. 

Responsibilities:

Bathing, dressing, grooming, caring for nails and oral hygiene, changing bed linens of an incontinent patient, shaving, applying deodorant, caring for skin with lotions and/or powder, caring for feet and ears.

Assistance with medications that ordinarily are self-administered and that do not require the skills of a licensed nurse to be provided safely and effectively.

Assistance with activities that are directly supportive of skilled therapy services but do not require the skills of a therapist to be safely and effectively performed (e.g. routine maintenance exercises and repetitive speech therapy.

Routine care of prosthetic and orthotic devices.

Incidental/household services may be performed during the visit only if the purpose of the visit is to perform a health service such as:

• Light housekeeping: change of bed linens, light cleaning of immediate area, meal preparation, and kitchen cleanup after meal preparation.

• Personal laundry essential to the patient's health care.

• Grocery shopping for essentials.

• Errands

• Trash removal