Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children

Position Overview

The Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children is responsible for providing family member directed care, personal care, household assistance and assistance with daily living activities that improve quality of life by allowing our patients to remain in their home while adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide services that are ordered by the physician in the plan of care within the scope of practice per Florida Law
• Perform, assist, evaluate and document medical care, such as :

o Basic first aid

o Read and record vital (temperature, pulse, respiration)

o Range of motion exercises

o Ambulation, transfer and positioning with wheelchairs and other non-life support medical equipment and devicesv

o Prepare meals according to dietary and nutritional needs

o Care for patient’s special conditions and needs within scope of authorized tasks

o Assistance with bathing, toileting, grooming, shaving, skin and nail care, oral hygiene, dressing and eating as required by patient

o Home safety and sanitation

o Infection control

o General light housekeeping, laundry, and shopping specific to patient

o Maintaining and completing the necessary patient / family and Company documentation records upon conclusion of each visit

o Observe and report significant changes in patient’s condition to the (RN) Nursing Supervisor

Requirements

o A Home Health Aide must receive at least 12 hours of in-service training during each 12-month period. In-service training may occur while an aide is furnishing care to a patient.

Additional state specific requirements :

o Successful completion of Nurse Aide training and competency evaluation program pursuant to the requirements of 42 CFR part 483, Subpart D; or

o Health Care or Personal Care credentialing program recognized and approved by the state; or

o Successful completion of 40 hour training program provided by a private home care provider which addresses at least the areas specified in the PHCP rules

o Appropriate clearing of Illinois Department of Public Health – Health Care Worker Registry,

o Successful completion of Long-Term Care Assistants and Aides Training Programs Code; or

o Documentation of current registration from another state; or

o Successful completion of a Nursing Arts Program which included at least 40 hours of supervised clinical experience from an accredited nursing program as evidenced by diploma, certificate or other written verification from the school and proof of successful completion of the written portion of the Department established nursing assistant competency test; or

o Successful completion of a US military Training Program that includes the content of the Basic Nursing Assistant Training Program as evidenced by a diploma, certification DD-214, or other written verification and successful completion of the written portion of the Department-established nursing assistant competency evaluation Proof of completion of a nursing program in a foreign country.

Florida :

Successful completion of HHA MFC training pursuant to the requirements of 59A-8.0099

Successful compensation of level 2 ACHA background and finger printing

Other Skills / Abilities

Physical Requirements

Environment

Other Duties