HOME
HEATLH CARE JOBS
Nature of home
health care jobs
As a home attendant or caregiver,
you may be called upon to do a variety of skilled and unskilled
duties. These include taking temperature, monitoring blood pressure
and pulse, keeping a record of these, assisting in daily activities,
taking care of the room, planning a diet, and cooking. You may
work with the same client on a monthly or yearly basis, or do
a number of clients in a working day.
Training for home
health care jobs
Some of the states do not have
any special educational requirements or formal training, with
on-the-job training provided. Other states require a formal training.
Contact the National Association for Home Care for certificate
courses. You also need to be physically fit, and a health check
may be mandatory. Not much career scope exists in this field.
Providers of home
health care jobs
The department of labor lists about
600,000 jobs for the year 2002 held by personal assistants, and
considers it the fastest growing field in health care industry.
The providers of home health care jobs it mentions are: home healthcare
services, individual and family services, private households,
and residential mental retardation, mental health, and substance
abuse facilities.
Home health care
aide/assistant: Job Profile
Let us finally see what type of
work is involved in home health care. Also called homemakers,
caregivers, companions, and personal attendants, they take care
of people who may be confined to their homes for a variety of
reasons: sickness, old age, or disability. They need continuous
supervision and personal help from trained people. A home health
care assistant helps with monitoring pulse, temperature, blood
pressure, and helps with daily activities. Also included are such
mundane things as cleaning, laundry, cooking, and any kind of
assistance required by the client. Requires coordination with
the client and the service provider/physician.
Earnings/Wages
for home health care jobs
The hourly wages/salary for home
health care jobs ranged from $6 to $10 in the year 2002, as per
the department of labor.
