HOME HEALTH AIDE - PRN (LEE AND COLLIER COUNTIES)

 

Job Title: Home Health Aide
Department: Nursing
Reports To: Director of Nursing
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Summary:
Provides personal care and assistance with ADL’s as required.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties: (Note: Other Duties May Be Assigned)

  • Personal care activities contained in a written assignment by a health professional employee of the home health agency which include assisting the patient with personal hygiene, ambulation, eating, dressing, shaving, and physical transfer

  • Other activities as instructed by a health professional employee of the home health agency for a specific patient and are restricted to the following:

    • Assisting with the change of a colostomy bag, reinforcement of dressing

    • Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as, a walker or a wheelchair

    • Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises

    • Assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar

    • Doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin

    • Measuring and preparing special diets

    • Measuring intake and output of fluids

    • Keeping records of personal health care activities

    • Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the patient and reporting to the registered nurse

    • Supervision of self-administered medication in the home limited to the following:

      • Obtaining the medication container from the storage area, if applicable

      • Preparing necessary items such as juice, water, cups or spoons to assist the patient in the self-administration of medication

      • Reminding the patient that it is time to take the medication prescribed

      • Observing the patient self-administering the medication.

    • Complying with infection prevention and control policies and procedures

    • Reporting changes in the patient’s condition

    • Honoring patient rights

    • Reporting any change to patient’s skin condition

    • Development and evaluation of the plan of care in partnership with the patient; representative (if any), and caregiver(s)

    • Providing services that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care

    • Preparing clinical notes

    • Participation in the HHA’s QAPI program

    • Compliance with the Agency’s Code of Conduct.

  • The home health aide shall not change sterile dressings, irrigate body cavities such as giving an enema, irrigate a colostomy or wound, perform a gastric irrigation or enteral feeding, catheterize a patient, administer medications, apply heat by any method, care for a tracheostomy tube, nor provide any personal health service which has not been included in the patient care plan.

Qualifications:

  • Successful completion of at least 75 hours of training, which shall include all the subjects required by AHCA or possess a Florida Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certificate.


Education and/or Experience:

  • Training must have been performed by or under the general supervision of a registered nurse


Language Skills:

  • Must possess good communication skills, both written and verbal


Mathematical Skills:

  • Math skills required


Reasoning Ability:

  • Able to work under pressure and handle multi-task functions. Must be able to deal effectively with people. Must be self-motivated and resourceful.


Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

  • 75 Hour Training Certificate from an accredited school or a CNA certificate.


Physical Demands

  • Physical demands for this position include an ability to assist and lift patients and have a physical exam that is free from communicable diseases. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


Work Environment

  • The work environment characteristics here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    • Well-lit and well-ventilated areas with some exposure to disagreeable conditions

    • Able to work in a non-smoking environment

 
Christopher Melley