Good Nursing and Medical Training offers a 40-hour Home Health Aide Training Program that teaches caregivers how to assist the elderly, frail, or disabled people in ill-health to maintain their quality of life and independence at home. The program teaches the caregivers the roles, responsibilities, and skills to perform in-home care. The training includes home health care, long-term care, patients’ rights, elder abuse, communication, aging, end-of-life care, infection control, nutrition, rehabilitation, common diseases, emergency procedures, and so much more. Graduates will be prepared with professional knowledge and experiences and may work in home care through a personal care home, home care agency, or home health agency.
By the end of the program, students will be able to:
- Understand the role of home health aides and their responsibilities involved in caring for home-bound patients
- Differentiate the home health aides’ roles from other care providers and understand their scope of practice
- Explain how to create a safe environment for the home health aide and the patient by identifying and describing OSHA regulations and other safe care requirements
- Identify and utilize proper communication skills with patients, families, other healthcare providers, and insurance companies
- Describe typical duties and care responsibilities for patients of all ages and levels of health, with a focus on identifying issues and care concerns for specific populations
- Identify and convey credible sources of dietary information and describe how to plan, purchase, store, and serve food to patients with different dietary restrictions and health concerns
- Identify and describe specific care regimens performed by the home health aide
- Identify and describe exercises designed to help patients gain and maintain strength and flexibility
- Understand and safely demonstrate the monitoring of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and pain