Home Health Aide - PRN (3 Available Positions) 

A.                  Competently performs all basic home health aide skills as listed on the “New Employee and Annual Home Health Aide Skills List.” This HHA Skills List must be completed annually and submitted with the annual performance evaluation. 

B.                   Assists the patient with personal care which may include bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, routine skin care, catheter care, feeding, dressing, grooming, transfers from bed to chair, bedside commode, or wheelchair and helping with ambulation.

C.                   Assists the patient/family with incidental household tasks essential to the patient’s health needs such as light housekeeping, making and changing beds, dusting and vacuuming patient’s room, dish washing, tidying kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, delivering needed supplies, and caregiver respite.

D.                  Assists the family in maintaining a healthy and safe environment.

E.                   Assists the patient/family unit with plans and preparation of nutritious meals and assists with occasional household chores when necessary. 

F.                   May perform the following functions after instruction and supervision by the RN or 

Clinical Manager/Dir/Asst Dir Regional Operations/Branch Office Manager.

                                1.             Assists with the use of devices geared to disability as aids to daily living.

                                2.             Assists patient with prescribed exercises that the Home Health Aide has been taught by appropriate professional personnel.

                                3.             Assists with preventive skin care. May reinforce non-sterile dressings.

                                4.             Assists in providing light massage when approved by the primary nurse.

                                5.             Records "input" and "output" if ordered.

                                6.             Prepares diet as required by patient.

7.                    Takes oral or axillary temperatures as needed.

8.                    Reminds/Assists patient to take oral medications.

              G.            Encourages the patient to become as independent as possible and resume activities of daily living according to the patient's abilities and conditions.

              H.              Offers simple emotional and psychological support to the patient/family unit. Encourages 
                                patient mental alertness through his/her activities of interest.

I.              Routinely collaborates with /reports to the IDT any change in the patient's mental or physical condition, or home situation. Coordinates with the primary nurse or designee to accomplish the required supervisory visits.         

                J.             Participates in Patient Care Conferences and participates in various learning modes and in-services to enrich personal and professional growth, and to maintain the required 12 hours (Florida) or 12 hours (Alabama) of in-service education per calendar year.

                K.            Accurately records and documents on forms and charts as designated by the Hospice Program.

                L.             Assists in the creation and maintenance of a climate that promotes growth and harmonious relationships within the Hospice staff.

                M.           For team staff only, attends morning reports.

                N.            Works in conjunction with scheduled shifts, on weekends as required.

O.                  Performs all other duties as directed by supervisor.

                 P.            Required to comply with all Covenant Hospice Policies, Procedures and Personnel Policies, including those specifically addressing disaster preparedness and response.

VI.        Functions that the Home Health Aide will not perform:

                              1.               Administer medications

                                2.             Sterile dressings

                                3.             Gastric lavage or tube feedings

                                4.             Care of tracheostomy tube

                                5.             Give injections

                                6.             Make judgments or give advice on medical or nursing problems

                                7.             Give any personal care not included by the nurse in the plan of care

                                8.             Give douches or enemas

                                9.             Irrigate colostomies

                                10.           Apply hot/cold or wet/dry compresses

11.                 Take rectal temperatures

12.                 Adjust any medical equipment