Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: 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.Aides who work for organizations that receive funds from Medicare or Medicaid must complete formal training, while those who work for private companies do not have to meet these obligations. On-the-job training is often provided by more experienced aides, nursing assistants (CNAs), licensed practical or registered nurses may provide this training.

Salary: That means that the hourly pay rate increases the longer a home health aide works for us. Entry level aides earn $8 per hour, and aides who have worked with us for a few years or more earn up to $13 per hour. According to published information, the national average wage for home health aides is $9.11 per hour. Our average wage is higher.

Education: Home health aides must receive formal training and pass a competency test to work for certified home health or hospice agencies that receive reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid. Personal and home care aides, however, face a wide range of requirements, which vary from state to state.

Reflection: No, I wouldn’t do this because it doesn’t interest me at all I want to be something in the medical field.