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Provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in the home of patients or in a residential care facility.

Sample of reported job titles: Home Health Aide (HHA), Residential Counselor, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Home Health Provider, Habilitation Training Specialist, Caregiver, Direct Support Person, Personal Care Attendant, Residential Assistant (RA)

Tasks

• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or automobiles, and with dressing and grooming.
• Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
• Change bed linens, wash and iron patients' laundry, and clean patients' quarters.
• Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
• Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
• Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
• Check patients' pulse, temperature and respiration.
• Change dressings.
• Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.

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