Home Health Aide (CNA)

JOB SUMMARY

This position provides companionship/personal care to the client and keeps records on personal health care activities as defined within the respective regulatory environment (State Home Health Regulations). C.N.A./HHA will comply with the dress code and the Agency and present a neat and clean professional fashion as well as project a positive demeanor.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. The performance of all personal care activities contained in a written assignment by a licensed health professional employee or contractor of the home health agency, and which include assisting the patient or client with personal hygiene, ambulation, eating, dressing, shaving, physical transfer, and other duties as assigned.

2. Maintenance of a clean, safe, and healthy environment, which may include light cleaning and straightening of the bathroom, straightening the sleeping, and living areas, washing the patient's or client's dishes or laundry, and such tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the patient or client.

3. Other activities as taught by a licensed health professional employee or contractor of the home health agency for a specific patient and are restricted to the following: A) Assisting with the change of a colostomy bag. B) Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living, such as a wheelchair or walker. C) Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises. D) Assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar. E) Doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone, or albumin. F) Measuring and preparing special diets. G) Measuring intake and output of fluids, and H) Measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, or blood pressure.

4. Keeping records of personal health care activities.

5. Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the patient or client and reporting to the registered nurse, and.

6. Supervision of self-administered medication in the home is limited to the following: A) Obtaining the medication container from the storage area for the patient. B) Ensuring that the medication is prescribed for the patient. C) Reminding the patient that it is time to take the medication as prescribed. D) Observing the patient self-administering the medication.

7. Personal care activities may include: A) Personal Hygiene/Grooming - Helping the client with shaving, oral care, care of hair and nail care. B) Ambulation - Provide physical support to enable the client to move about within or outside of their home or facility. Physical Support includes supporting or holding the client's hand, elbow, arm; holding on to a support belt worn by the client to assist in providing stability or direction while the client ambulates; or pushing the client's wheelchair. C) Eating/Meal Preparation - Helping with cutting food, pouring beverages, and feeding clients who are unable to feed themselves. D) Dressing - Helping the client to choose and to put on and remove clothing. E) Toileting - Assisting the client to the bathroom, helping to undress, positioning on the commode, and helping with related personal hygiene, including assistance with changing an adult brief. Assistance with toileting includes assistance with the routine emptying of a catheter or colostomy bag. F) Bathing - Assembling towels, soaps, and other necessary supplies. Helping the client in/out of the shower, turning the water on/off, adjusting the water temperature, washing, and drying portions of the body which are difficult for the client to reach, or being available while the client is bathing. G) Transfer - Provide verbal and physical cueing or physical assistance or both while the client moves between bed and a standing or between bed and a chair or wheelchair.

8. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.