Home Health Aide HHA​/CNA

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Salary Range: $22 – $27 / Hour

• Perform only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment.
• Help the patient to maintain good personal hygiene.
• Plan and prepare meals; feed or assist with feeding the patient when needed.
• Assist the patient with ambulation.
• Assist with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient, including: assist with the change of the colostomy bag; assist with the use of a walker or wheelchair; reinforce dressing; assist with prescribed range‑of‑motion exercises; assist with prescribed ice caps or collars; measure intake and output of fluids; and assist with medications that are ordinarily self‑administered.
• Read and record temperature, pulse, and respiration.

• Assist in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Promote the patient’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.
• Provide simple emotional and psychological support to the patient, family, and other caregivers.
• Report any changes in the patient’s mental or physical condition or home situation to the VITAS Nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Teach basic personal care to the primary caregiver.
• Practice basic infection control measures.
• Observe, report, and document patient status and the care and activities provided.
• Complete at least 12 hours of in‑service training per calendar year.
• Handle other tasks as assigned.

• Be assigned by VITAS to any institutional setting.
• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (such as an enema).
• Irrigate a colostomy or wound.
• Perform a gastric lavage or gavage.
• Catheterize a patient.
• Administer medications.
• Apply heat by any method.
• Care for a tracheotomy tube.
• Suction a patient.
• Provide any personal care that has not been assigned by the VITAS nurse or included in the plan of care.

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Meets personnel qualifications of a Home Health Aide as specified in 42 C.F.R. Section 484.4 and Section 484.36.
• Documented evidence of 75 hours of training as specified in 42 C.F.R. Sections 484.36(a)(1).
• Documented evidence that Home Health Aide has successfully completed a Competency Evaluation program as described in 42 C.F.R. Section 484.36(b).

State Allowable Training/Certification

• AL, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, MI, PA, TX, VA, WI – CNA, HHA, HA
• CA – CHHA
• CT – Homemaker‑Home Health Aide
• IL – HHA, NA
• KS – Home Health Aide certificate
• MO – Home Health Aide
• NJ – Homemaker‑Home Health Aide
• OH – Home Health Aide

• Has the ability to read, write, and carry out directions.
• Has the ability to travel per job requirements.
• Has a telephone available in the home.

• Assist in lifting and transferring patients, as required.
• Lift objects in excess of 20 pounds.
• Stand or walk in excess of one hour per day.
• Talk and hear.

• Close vision.
• Distance vision.
• Ability to adjust focus.

• Reports directly to the VITAS Nurse.
• Receives clinical direction from the VITAS Nurse.

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care

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