Nursing Psychiatric And Home Health Aides Career Opportunities
urses' Aides and aides. Home health aides hold
Psychiatric Aides provide about 650,000 jobs and
supervised care for psychiatric aides about 60,000
physically ill, mentally ill, jobs.
injured, disabled, or infirm
individuals in hospitals, care A high school diploma or
homes and institutions. Home equivalent may be necessary for a
health aides perform similar job as a nursing or psychiatric
duties in the patient's home. aide, but generally is not
required for jobs as home health
Aides help take the patient's aides. Nursing care facilities
temperature, pulse rate, may hire inexperienced workers
respiration rate, and blood who then complete a minimum of 75
pressure. They provide hours of mandatory training and
health-related services, pass a competency evaluation
including administering oral within 4 months. Nursing and
medications. Psychiatric aides psychiatric aide training is
care for mentally impaired or offered in high schools,
emotionally disturbed vocational-technical centers,
individuals. They work with nursing care facilities and some
professional staff to help the community colleges. Courses cover
patient in educational and body mechanics, nutrition,
recreational activities and in anatomy and physiology, infection
other ways. control, communication skills,
and resident rights.
Nursing, psychiatric, and home
health aides hold about 2.2 Federal law for medicare funded
million jobs in the U.S. facilities requires home health
Approximately 1.5 million of aides to pass a competency test
these employees are nursing for a wide range of skills.
Federal law suggests at least 75 •socialize with patients.
hours of classroom and practical
training, supervised by a Overall employment of aides is
registered nurse before taking projected to grow much faster
the test. The National than average for all U.S.
Association for Home Care offers occupations, although individual
a voluntary national occupational growth rates will
certification for home health vary.
aides. Some states also require
aides to be licensed. How much do Nursing, Psychiatric,
and Home Health Aides Earn?
Nursing, psychiatric, and home
health aides must be able to: Median hourly earnings of nursing
aides, orderlies, and attendants
•perform routine tasks under the were $10.09 in May 2004. Fifty
supervision of nursing and percent earned between $8.59 and
medical staff. $12.09 an hour. The lowest
•help patients with all mundane earnings were less than $7.31,
and personal needs, and the highest 10 percent earned
•provide basic medical or health more than $14.02 an hour.
services, such as taking their
temperature, pulse rate, A Day in a Nursing, Psychiatric,
respiration rate, and blood and Home Health Aide's Life:
pressure and administering oral
medications, On a typical day a Nursing,
•observe patients' physical, psychiatric and home health aide
mental, and emotional conditions will:
,
•work in a team under •answer patients' call lights,
professional supervision deliver messages, serve meals,
make beds, and help patients to or assist with braces and
eat, dress, and bathe, artificial limbs,
•provide skin care to patients, •socialize with patients and lead
take their temperature, pulse them in educational and
rate, respiration rate, and blood recreational activities.
pressure, and help them to get
into and out of bed and walk, I hope this article gives you a
•escort patients to operating and good idea of what is involved in
examining rooms, keep patients' the career of a Nursing,
rooms neat, set up equipment, Psychiatric, or Home Health Aide.
store and move supplies, and Health care is the largest
assist with some procedures, industry in the world. In the
•observe patients' physical, U.S. about 14 million people work
mental, and emotional conditions in the health care field. More
and report to the nursing or new wage and salary jobs are in
medical staff, health care than in any other
•administer oral medications,. industry. (Some figures from
•change nonsterile dressings, Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
give massages and alcohol rubs,
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Mike Clark is the director of Health Care Hiring (http://www.healthcarehiring.com) an online portal to the health care and medical community. Check out this website to find out more about career & training opportunities, and nationwide employer contact information, in the health care and medical sector.
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