HOME HEALTH AIDES: Care for elderly, convalescent, or handicapped person in home of patient. Perform duties for patient such as changing bed linen; preparing meals; assisting in and out of bed; bathing, dressing, and grooming; and administering oral medications under doctors' orders or direction of nurse. Exclude Nursing Aides and Homemakers.

• Apply gerontology theory
• Apply infectious materials procedures
• Apply institutional care procedures
• Apply interpersonal communication techniques
• Apply nursing practices & procedures
• Apply nutritional practices
• Apply patient care procedures
• Apply personal care procedures
• Apply sanitation practices to health care
• Collect specimens
• Comprehend body response variations
• Feed patients
• Give enemas
• Keep records & maintain files
• Lift/transport ill/injured persons
• Maintain medical records
• Manage client assets in institutional or assisted living situations
• Manage medical records
• Perform patient observation
• Perform routine medical treatments
• Post medical insurance billings
• Prepare meals
• Prepare patients for tests
• Provide in home patient care
• Recognize home safety hazards as part of health care services
• Set up patient care equipment
• Take vital signs
• Understand & use medical terminology
• Use behavior modification with institutionalized/developmentally disabled
• Use home medical equipment
• Use isolation procedures for infected laundry
• Use nursing terminology
• Use physical intervention techniques in clinical/institutional setting
• Use principles of gerontology
• Weigh patients
• Work as a team member
• Work with persons with mental disabilities/illnesses