Home Health Aide​/Certified Nursing Assistant; CNA

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The VITAS Home Health Aide (HHA) is a non-exempt employee trained to provide personal care and services to hospice patients to augment care given by family members or other caregivers.

Salary Range: $17 - $21/ Hour

• Performs only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment.
• Assists with patient personal hygiene.
• Plans and prepares meals; feeds or assists with feeding when needed.
• Assists patient ambulation.
• Assists with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and supervised by the nurse, including: change of a colostomy bag; use of a walker or wheelchair; reinforcement of a dressing; prescribed range of motion exercises; prescribed ice cap or collar; measure intake and output of fluids; and assist with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
• Reads and records temperature, pulse, and respiration.

• Assists in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Promotes the patient’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.
• Provides simple emotional and psychological support to the patient, family, and other caregivers.
• Reports any changes in the patient’s mental or physical condition or home situation to the VITAS Nurse and interdisciplinary team.
• Teaches basic personal care to the primary caregiver.
• Practices basic infection control measures.
• Observes, reports, and documents patient status and the care and activities provided.
• Completes at least 12 hours of in-service training per calendar year.
• Handles other tasks as assigned.

• Be assigned 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. Sections 484.4 and 484.36.
• Documented evidence of 75 hours of training as specified in 42 C.F.R. Sections 484.36 (a)(1).
• Documented evidence that the Home Health Aide has successfully completed a Competency Evaluation program as described in 42 C.F.R. Section 484.36(b).

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

• Ability to read, write, and carry out directions.
• Ability to travel per job requirements.
• Telephone available in the home.

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

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

The Home Health Aide (HHA) will be required to sit, stoop, kneel, and crouch regularly.

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

Entry level

Full-time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care