Personal And Home Care Aides Career Opportunities
ersonal and Home Care private households. Self-employed
Aides work in patients' aides arrange work schedules,
homes and rooms, helping payment, etc., on their own.
disabled, elderly, ill, and
mentally disabled and disturbed In some states, one need only
persons live in their own homes receive on-the-job training,
or in residential care which generally is provided by
facilities. They provide employers. In other states formal
housekeeping and routine personal training may be required. This is
care services, as well as available from community
instruction and psychological colleges, vocational schools,
support to their patients. They elder care programs, and home
may advise families and patients health care agencies.
on nutrition, cleanliness, and
household tasks. National certification is offered
by The National Association for
Aides keep records of clients' Home Care and Hospice (NAHC).
conditions, and of services Certification is a voluntary
performed, and report to a demonstration that the individual
supervisor who is often a has met industry standards. One
registered nurse (RN). Aides must complete a standard 75-hour
assist and cooperate with health course and written exam developed
care professionals and other by NAHC. Home care aides seeking
medical staff. certification are evaluated on 17
different skills by a registered
Personal and home care aides hold nurse.
over 700,000 jobs. Most jobs are
in home health care services; State mandated tests such as for
individual and family services; tuberculosis may be required as
residential care facilities; and part of a physical examination.
Criminal background checks are personal and home care aides were
also sometimes required for $8.12 in May 2004. Pay ranged
employment. from less than $5.93 per hour up
to more than $10.87 an hour.
Personal and home care aides must
be able to: A Day in a Personal and Home Care
Aide's Life:
help people and not mind hard
work, On a typical day a personal and
be responsible, compassionate, home care aide will:
emotionally stable, and cheerful,
be tactful, honest, and clean clients' houses,
discreet, do laundry, and change bed
work independently, linens,
follow detailed instructions, plan meals (including special
lift patients without straining diets), shop for food, and cook,
or injuring themselves. help clients get out of bed,
bathe, dress, and groom,
Because of rapid employment accompany clients to doctors'
growth and high replacement needs appointments or other errands,
excellent job opportunities are advise families and patients on
expected. Job growth for personal nutrition, cleanliness, and
and home care aides is projected household tasks,
to grow much faster than average assist in toilet training a
for all U.S. occupations. severely mentally handicapped
child,
How Much Do Personal and Home listen to clients talk about
Care Aides Earn? their problems,
keep records of services
Average hourly earnings for performed and of clients'
condition and progress, Care Aide. Health care is the
report changes in the client's largest industry in the world. In
condition to the supervisor or the U.S. about 14 million people
case manager. work in the health care field.
More new wage and salary jobs are
I hope this article gives you a in health care than in any other
good idea of what is involved in industry. (Some figures from
the career of a Personal and Home Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
About the Author:
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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