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Home Health Aides
Also Known as: Home Care Aide, Home Healthcare Aide, Personal Care Aide, In Home Caregiver, In Home Aide
In-Demand Job

Average Earnings Over Time
$7/hr
$13/hr
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Salaries may vary per region
Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.
Top Skills for this Job
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
- Writing
- Speaking
- Persuasion
- Instructing
Top Tasks for this Job
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.
Top Education for this Job
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
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