Urgent Hire: Masada Home Care - Urgent - Crandon Boulevard, Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Must complete at least forty hours of training in communication_ skills, observation, reporting, and documentation of client status and the services provided, reading and recording temperature, pulse, and respiration, basic infection control procedures, basic elements of body functions that must be reported to the registered Staff supervisor, maintenance of a clean, safe, and healthy environment, recognition of emergencies and knowledge of emergency procedures, physical, emotional, and developmental characteristics of populations served, appropriate and safe techniques in personal hygiene and grooming, including bed bath, sponge, tub, or shower bath, shampoo, tub or bed, nail and skin care, oral hygiene. Safe transfer techniques and ambulation, normal range of motion and positioning, adequate nutrition and fluid intake, the role of the aide in the home, differences in families, food, and household management.
Home Health aides assisting with self-administered medication must receive at least 2 hours of training (which may be included in the 40-hour home health training) before assuming this responsibility. Training must cover state law and rule requirements concerning the assistance with self-administration of medications in the home, procedures for assisting the resident with self-administration of medication, common medications, recognition of side effects and adverse reactions, and procedures to follow when residents appear to be experiencing side effects and adverse reactions.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Reach with hands and arms, active for long periods, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, Stretch, twist, lift and/or carry 25 pounds using proper body mechanics
Education:
Training must be performed by or under the general supervision of a registered Staff. Must receive at least 12 hours of in-service training per calendar year. The CPR, HIV, and AIDS educational requirements must also meet at least 2 hours of initial training and 1 hour biennially of in-service training in HIV and AIDS (lifetime training). 2 hours of Alzheimer's Disease training must be completed. The training should include universal precautions and infection control procedures to ensure proper practices are followed. Training must be provided to obtain and maintain a certificate in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Each home health aide must be able to read the prescription label and any instructions. Individuals who cannot read must not be permitted to assist with prescription medications.
PERFORMANCE, DUTES, ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, ABILITIES AND STANDARDS:
The Home Health Aide shall perform the following duties: EACH SERVICES HAS ITS OWN REQUIREMENT AND DUTIES; THE AGENCY WILL INFORM SPECIFIC DUTIES WHEN ASSIGN AN INDNIDUAL FOR SERVICES.
1 All the personal care activities contained in a written assignment by a health professional staff or contractor,
Which include activities such as:
- a. Assisting the client with personal hygiene
- b. Assisting the client with ambulation/physical transfer
- c. Assisting the client with eating
- d. Helping the client with dressing
- e. Assisting the client with shaving
2. Maintenance of a clean, safe, and healthy environment may include light cleaning and straightening of the bathroom, straightening the sleeping and living areas, washing the client's or client's dishes or laundry, and such tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the client or client. Client-related activities are taught to the Home Health Aide by a professional staff member, specifically the client. Such activities include:
- a. Assisting with change of colostomy bag, reinforcement of dressing
- b. Measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, or blood pressure
- c. Measuring intake and output of fluids
- d. Assisting with using devices to aid daily living, for example, a walker or wheelchair.
- e. Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises (such exercises are limited to those taught to the Home Health Aide and the client by a professional staff
- f. Assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar
- g. Doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone, and albumin.
- h. Measuring and preparing special diets.
Provision of Companionship for the client
Provision of escort or transporting the client to doctor appointments and shopping.
3 Keeping records of personal health services activities
4 Observing the client's appearance and gross behavioral changes and reporting to the Agency's Staff.
5 Supervision of self-administered medication in the home, limited to obtaining medication container from the storage area for the client, ensuring that the medication was prescribed for the client, and preparing necessary items such as juice, water, cups, and spoons to assist the client in the self-administration of medication, remain the client that is time to take the medication as prescribed, and observing the client self-administering the medication. Also, the home health aide may open and close the medication container or tear the foil of prepackaged medicines to assist the resident in the self-administration process, such as steadying the arm, hand, or other parts of the client's body to allow the self- administration of medication, assist to the client by placing unused doses of solid medicines back into the medication container.
6 THE HOME HEALTH AIDE SHALL NOT PERFORM THE FOLLOWING TASKS
- A Changing of sterile dressings.
- B Irrigating body cavities such as giving enema
- C Irrigating a colostomy or wound
- D Performing a gastric irrigation or enteral feeding
- E Catheterizing a client
- F Administering medications
- G Applying heat by any method
- H Caring for a tracheostomy tube
- I Any personal health service that has not been included by the Registered Staff in the client services plan
Essential Functions and training requirements
1 Understand and carry out instructions.
2 Record Messages.
3 Keep simple records
4 Maintain emotional and mental maturity.
5 Be interested and have a sympathetic attitude toward caring for the individual.
6 Proof of current training before providing services in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), AIDS (lifetime), Alzheimer's (lifetime), and Infection Control; also, shall have training on the emphasis on individual choice and rights, responsibilities, and procedures for maintaining health, safety, and well-being of individuals served.
7 It is limited to the home health services program, the role of the Assistant, family differences, nutrition, food and household management, personal care services, ethics and conduct, personal hygiene, agency policies, and reports and records. A registered Staff teaches personal care activities.
8 Must have four (4) contact hours to complete the HIV and AIDS education.
9 Must comply with requirements for good moral character screening and criminal records check.
Pay: $16.50 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid orientation
Work Location: In person
