Home health aid vs resident care associate

Differences between home health aid and resident care associate duties and responsibilities

Home health aid example responsibilities.

• Clean house, cook, run errands, take to doctor appointments
• Prepare for HIPAA and JCAHO reviews, ensuring require brochures and pamphlets are available to patients in all clinics.
• Conduct insurance verifications for Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance patients.
• Perform ADL's, medication administration, pulmonary therapy, daily physiotherapy.
• Provide physical and emotional support and companionship to senior adults in degenerative loss of memory and/or motor functions.
• Obtain household supplies and run daily errands.
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Resident care associate example responsibilities.

• Assist Alzheimer patients with daily activities including personal care, administering medications and communicating with their families.
• Assist in rehabilitation to transfer home.
• Have been train to administer medication, CPR train, and mechanical lift train.
• Maintain cleanliness throughout med pass, and practice aseptic technique when pouring and assisting with medication.
• Assist with ADL's, medication assistance, dinning room service, answering the telephones and front desk monitoring.
• Care for residents with diagnosis such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and arthritis.
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