Elite Home Health Care

Caregiver

Direct Care - Brooklyn - Brooklyn, NY - Part Time to Full Time

HOME HEALTH AIDE

POSITION SUMMARY
A Home Health Aide is an individual, who provides personal care, home management and other
related home health supportive services in order for the individual to continue living in their
home environment when there are disruptions due to illness, disability, social disadvantage or
other problems on the home. The HHA provides care in accordance with the DOH matrix:
permissible and Non-permissible Activities: HHA Services.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Successful completion of New York State Department of Health approved Home Health Aide
training program as demonstrated by a valid Home Health Aide Certificate.
  • Ability to speak, read and write in English sufficiently to understand and interpret the HHA Plan of Care
  • Document care provided on the HHA Time and Activity report and able to call agency to report change and /or issues related to the patient and /or 911 in case of emergency.
  • Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s.
  • Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
  • Holds a valid Home Health Aide Certificate.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions.
  • Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Preparing and serving normal/therapeutic diets. Assisting patient with eating and monitors intake; measure intake and output
  • Assisting with bathing of patient – in bed, tub and shower.
  • Assisting with grooming, care of hair, including shampoo, shaving with electric razor only, and ordinary care of nails – this means soaking and filing nails.
  • Assisting with care of teeth and mouth.
  • Assisting patient on and off bedpan, commode and toilet.
  • Assisting patient in transferring from bed to chair, wheelchair and in walking with or without devices.
  • Assisting patient with dressing.
  • Assisting patient with self-administered, oral medications that have been ordered by the medical practitioner.
  • Taking temperature, pulse and respiration as directed.
  • Use of special equipment i.e. Hoyer lift.
  • Assisted as instructed with a home exercise program including passive range of motion, turning and positioning.
  • Reporting any change in patient’s mental and physical condition or home situation to the nurse.
  • Making and changing bed/linens.
  • Dusting and vacuuming the rooms the patient uses.
  • Tidying bedroom and bathroom
  • Patient’s personal laundry: this may include necessary ironing and mending
  • Provides a supportive environment and ongoing reality orientation to confused patients using appropriate interpersonal behavioral techniques.
  • Assists with self-administered medications.
  • Reinforce sterile dressing.
  • Empty urinary or colostomy bag and cleanse catheter insertion site.
  • Administer special skin care as directed.
  • Collect stool, sputum and urine specimens using appropriate techniques.

FUNCTIONS PERMISSIBLE FOR HOME HEALTH AIDES UNDER SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES:
If no family member is present or capable of providing care for a specific patient, the nurse
may with the approval of the physician, teach and closely supervise the Aide in the following
procedures:
  • Change of colostomy bag
  • Reinforce dressing and change simple non-sterile dressing.
  • With the use of devices geared to disability to aid in daily living.
  • Help patient with prescribed exercise which the Home Health Aide has been taught by appropriate professional personnel.
  • Apply prescribed ice cap or ice collar.
  • Perform simple urine test for sugar, acetone or albumen and record results.
  • Perform functions allowable as per: NYS DOH Approved Scope of Practice.

THE HOME HEALTH AIDE WILL NOT PERFORM THESE FUNCTIONS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES:
  • Foley catheter irrigation.
  • Apply a sterile dressing.
  • Give enemas or remove impactions.
  • Perform gastric lavage.
  • Applications of heat in any form.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Patient’s home
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