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.Home Health Aides/ Caregiver Job Description:

Home Health Aides provide valuable services for those that need in- home care and attention with day-to-day tasks. In addition, home Health Aides assist those with disabilities, short-term and chronic impairments, and short-term and chronic illnesses, as well as people recovering at home following surgical procedures. Due to very nature of the responsibilities of home Health Aides, they often end up overseeing the healthcare needs of their patients to ensure the follow their doctor; s orders. As such, there are many different duties at home Health Aids could be required to perform, including: 

• Administering prescription and over- the-counter medications.
• Taking the patient's vital signs recoding them.
• Collecting samples for testing.
• Educating the patient's on proper nutrition.
• Helping the patient on proper nutritions.
• Helping the patient by prepare meals.
• Assisting the patient by going with them to doctor's visits, shopping and other errands. 
• Spending time with the patient for various activities, such as going to the park, reading, talking and playing games.
• Assisting patient with exercises.
• Providing basic personal care, such as bathing, dressing and grooming.
• Performing light housekeeping duties.
• Replacing sterile dressing and monitoring wound healing.
• Assisting the patient in and out of bed or transferring to or from wheelchair.
• Helping the patient do laundry.

• Keeping accurate recodes of home visit, including travel time, time with the patient and what services were performed during the visit.