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Home Health Aide- Home Health Miami Dade County - Full time - Part time - PRN
SHALL PERFORM THE FOLLOWING DUTIES :
1. All the personal care activities contained in a written assignment by a licensed health
professional employee, or contractor, and which activities such as :
a. Assisting the patient with personal hygiene, following appropriate and safe techniques,
that include bed bath, sponge, tub, and shower bath, hair shampooing in sink, tub, and
bed; nail and skin care; oral hygiene.
b. Assisting the patient with ambulation / physical transfer, following safe transfer
techniques.
c. Assisting the patient with eating.
d. Assisting the patient with dressing.
e. Assisting the patient with shaving.
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 of client dishes or laundry, and such tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the
patient of client. Patient related activities as taught to the Home Health Aide / CNA by a
Licensed Health Professional employee for specific patients. Such activities include :
a. Assisting with change of colostomy bag, reinforcement of dressing.
b. Measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, or blood pressure.
c. Measuring intake and output of fluids.
d. Assisting with the use of devices for aide to daily living. Example, a walker or5
wheelchair.
e. Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercise (such exercise is limited to those
taught to the Home Health Aide / CNA and the patient by a professional employee)
f. Assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar.
g. Doing simple urine test for sugar, acetone, and albumin.
h. Measuring and preparing special diets.
3. Keeping records of personal health care activities
4. Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the patient and recording to the
registered nurse.
5. Supervision of self-administered medication in the home limited to : obtaining medication
container from the storage area for the patient, ensuring that the medication is prescribed
for the patient, mind the patient that it's time to take the medication as prescribed, and
observing the patient self-administering the medication.
6. The Home Health Aide / CNA may also provide the following assistance with self-administered medication, as needed by the patient, in accordance with 400.488.F.S. :
a. Prepare necessary items such as juice, water, cups, or spoons to assist the patient in the
self-administration of medication.
b. Open and close the medication container or tear the foil of prepackaged medication
c. Assist the resident / patient in the self-administration process, such as : steadying of the
arm, hand, or other parts of the patient's body so as to allow the self-administration of
medication
d. Assist to the patient by placing unused doses of solid medication back into the
medication container.
Assisting with tasks associated with elimination :
i. Toileting
ii. Assisting with the use of the bedpan and urinal
iii. Providing catheter care including changing the urinary catheter bag
iv. Collecting specimens
v. Emptying ostomy bags, or changing bags that do not adhere to the skin
7. THE HOME HEALTH AIDE / CNA SHALL NOT PERFORM THE FOLLOWING TASKS
a. Changing of sterile dressings.
c. Irrigating a colostomy or wound
d. Performing a gastric irrigation or enteral feeding
e. Catheterizing a patient
f. Administering medications
g. Applying heat by any method
h. Caring for a tracheostomy tube
i. Any personal health service which has not been included by the Registered Nurse in the
patient care plan.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :
1. Able to speak, read, and write in English.
2. Able to read assignments, follow directions
3. Able to communicate and respond clearly on telephone and respond to patients spoken
needs.
4. The ability to physically transfer, lift, or assist patients whose average weight is 160
pounds with or without the aid of mechanical devices.
5. Able to spend 80% of work standing and / or moving about.
6. Able to walk, climb stairs, stoop, twist, bend, and squat to perform essential job
functions.
MENTAL REQUIREMENTS :
1. Able to concentrate on detail with frequent interruptions.
2. Able to follow, complete and remember daily routines and requirements.
3. Able to comprehend and utilize professional education materials.
4. Able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
Last updated : 2024-08-21
Full Time
$28k-35k (estimate)
08/23/2024
11/21/2024
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