*Home Health Care Aide
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The Home Health Care Aide is responsible for providing personal care to residents/community clients in accordance with established Judson Home Care policies and procedures and clinical standards, specific residents/community clients care plan, making observations and reporting appropriately as directed by supervisor or designee.
[Essential Duties and Responsibilities]{.underline}[:]{.underline}
Resident/community client personal care, homemaker, escort and/or companion duties:
- Provides care according to the individual resident/community client care plan, make observations regarding the individual's condition and reports/documents the duties performed and the observations made during all shifts of duty.
- Supervises residents/community clients at all times when on duty.
- Provides personal care to the client, including bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, shaving, skin care, hand and foot care, and dressing.
- Assists residents/community clients with mobility, including walking, transferring and turning positioning using proper body mechanics.
- Assists residents/community clients with prescribed exercises, which the residents/community clients and the assistant have been taught and supervised by appropriate personnel.
- Assists residents/community clients with toileting needs, including assistance with bedpan, bedside commode, toilet use and care of incontinency.
- Plans, shops, prepares, or assists with nutritious meals and prescribed diets including clean up of kitchen area.
- Feeds residents/community clients in need of assistance (STNAs are the only permitted to perform this task in licensed areas).
- Assists in the self-administration of medications that are prescribed by the residents'/community clients' physician and set-up by a nurse or other appropriate party.
- Provides homemaking services, such as bed making, light housework, laundering, errand running with residents'/community clients'/family's agreement or accompanying residents/community clients to medical appointments providing transportation with supervisor's approval and written residents/community clients Responsible Party consent.
- Performs, assists and/or encourages participation of activities both in and outside of the home/apartment/room with appropriate activities necessary to maintain a healthy, safe environment.
- Provides companionship to meet the socialization needs of the residents/community clients.
Reporting, documentation and communication responsibilities:
- Documents care provided in the "Home Health Assistant Daily Report" and maintains appropriate records/reports, as required in the Home Health Assistant Report Book.
- Reports any changes in residents'/community clients' condition to RN Care Manager including all incidents/accidents which occur in Judson per the emergency procedures (i.e. using the pull cord, etc) and also notifies the RN Community Care Manager.
- Reports any changes resulting in hospitalizations, emergency room visits etc which would impact schedule to scheduler and RN Community Care Manager.
- Reports all emergencies called into "911" while on duty providing service to non-DNR clients in the community per emergency procedures and notifies the JHC RN Community Care Manager.
- Communicates any and all changes in scheduling with DIRECTLY WITH THE SCHEDULER according to JHC policies and procedures.
Education responsibilities:
Attends and keeps records of 12 hours of mandatory and other appropriate in-services annually. Attends and keeps records of approved American Red Cross First Aid Training at least every three (3) y
