Home Health Aide
National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives
Date: 1 day ago
City: Union City, CA
Contract type: Full time
Job Summary
The Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is a member of the Home Health Team, providing direct patient care under the supervision of a case manager, reporting all changes in the patient's condition to the case manager.
Essential Responsibilities
The Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is a member of the Home Health Team, providing direct patient care under the supervision of a case manager, reporting all changes in the patient's condition to the case manager.
Essential Responsibilities
- Provision of Care:
- Assisting patients with personal hygiene such as skin, mouth, hair care and bathing
- Assisting patients in and out of bed and assisting with ambulation.
- Assisting with prescribed exercises which patients and appropriate health personnel have taught aides.
- Preparing meals, including therapeutic diets, and assisting patients with eating.
- Assisting patients to the bathroom or in using commodes, bedpans or urinals.
- Performing household services, which will facilitate the patients, self-care at home and are necessary to prevent or postpone institutionalization.
- Assisting patients with medications, which are ordinarily self-administered.
- The home health aide shall not administer medications of any kind.
- Performing other activities taught by a health professional for a specific patient.
- These may include such services as changing colostomy bags, changing of non-sterile dressings, taking of vital signs, and non-sterile bowel and bladder hygiene care.
- Reporting changes in the patients condition and needs to the supervising nurse or therapist.
- Completing records regarding services performed.
- Takes actions in emergent patient situations and immediately report to supervisor.
- Documentation and Communication:
- Prepares timely legible and complete documentation of all care provided.
- Documents all communication with other providers.
- Reports stated or observed changes in patient status to case manager.
- Submits schedule logs changes in schedule and daily progress notes within expected time frame per agency policy.
- Participates in care coordination meetings
- Planning, Organizing and Productivity:
- Organizes, plan, set priorities and complete assignment within agency guidelines.
- Functions independently with supervision by case manager for each patient every 14 days as needed.
- Completes expense reports, timecards and schedule logs.
- Demonstrates utilization of supplies.
- Professional Behavior:
- Behaves in a courteous professional manner with patients, health professional and maintains patient confidentiality.
- Participates in Departmental Quality Assurance activities and Utilization Review activities as requested.
- Perform related duties as required.
- Supervisory Responsibilities:
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
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