Providing Care to our Homecare patients

Position Summary: The basic duty of a CAN / HHA, Independent Contractor is to provide light housekeeping, meal planning, shopping and food preparation, companionship and other client related services in the private home. Position Qualifications: Requires a minimum of six months experience providing full time personal care within the last year, current, sufficient, verbal and written communication skills to perform the tasks required. Ability to maintain assigned work hours and has sufficient endurance to perform tasks over long periods of work time. Ability to travel to different locations Job Duties: 1. Follows through with the comprehensive nursing care plan. 2. Assists with ambulation, including walking or moving around (i.e. wheelchair) inside the home, changing locations in a room, moving from room to room to gain access for the purpose of engaging in other activities. Ambulation does not include movement solely for the purpose of exercise 3. Bathing and grooming including cleaning the body using a tub, shower or sponge bath, including getting a basin of water, managing faucets, getting in and out of tub or shower, reaching head and body parts for soaping, rinsing and drying. 4. Grooming includes hair combing and brushing, shampooing, oral hygiene, shaving and fingernail and toenail care. Grooming shall exclude cutting with scissors or clipping toenails. 5. Dressing includes putting on and taking off, fastening and unfastening garments and undergarments, and special devices such as back or leg braces, corsets, elastic stockings/garments and artificial limbs or splints 6. Bowel, bladder and menstrual care including assisting the person on and off toilet or commode and emptying commode, managing clothing and wiping and cleaning body after toileting, assistance with using and emptying bedpans, ostomy and/or catheter receptacles and urinals, application of diapers and disposable barrier pads. Menstrual care is limited to external application of sanitary napkin and cleaning. 7. Reposition, transfer, skin care and range of motion exercises includes: • Moving from one sitting or lying position to another sitting or lying position e.g. from bed to or from a wheel chair, chair or sofa and the like, coming to a standing position and/or rubbing skin and repositioning to promote circulation and prevent skin breakdown. However, if decubiti have developed the need for skin and wound care is a skilled nursing service. • Range of motion exercises shall be limited to the general supervision of exercises which have been taught to the beneficiary by a licensed therapist or other health care professional. Such exercises shall include the carrying out of maintenance programs, i.e. the performance of the repetitive exercises required to maintain function, improve gait, maintain strength, or endurance; passive exercises to maintain range of motion in paralyzed extremities; and assistive walking. 8. Feeding, hydration assistance including reaching, picking up, grasping utensil and cup; getting food on utensil, bringing food, utensil and cup to mouth, manipulating food on plate. Cleaning face and hands as necessary following meal. 9. Assistance with self-administration of medications. Assistance with self-administration of medications consists of reminding the beneficiary to take prescribed and/or over-the counter medications when they are to be taken. 10. Respiration limited to nonmedical services such as assistance with self-administration of oxygen, assistance in the use of a nebulizer and cleaning oxygen equipment 11. Ancillary services are subject to time per task guidelines and are limited to the following: • Sweeping, vacuuming, washing and waxing of floor surfaces • Washing kitchen counters and sinks • Cleaning the bathroom • Storing food and supplies • Taking out the garbage • Dusting and picking up • Cleaning oven and stove • Cleaning and defrosting refrigerator