Nursing home aide vs home health assistant

Differences between nursing home aide and home health assistant duties and responsibilities

Nursing home aide example responsibilities.

• Perform Adl's medication administration.
• Assist nurse with the residents with their ADL.
• Treat each patient with genuine, compassion, kindness and respect.
• Assist with colostomy and catheter care under the supervision of the RN.
• Complete proper state training including blood borne pathogens, CPR training and others.
• Promote continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating to other caregivers the status of patients for which care is provided.
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Home health assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Assist bed bound and hospice patients with their ADL, assistance with NG tube feeding, providing proper care for comfort.
• Assist the patient with ADL'S (bathing, showering, grooming, mouth/denture care, dressing and undressing).
• Assist elderly and disable patients under direct supervision of license physician and nursing staff.
• Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
• Present peer to peer health education and provide administrative support to student health center including filing medical records using HIPPA compliant procedures