Home Health Aide (Physical Disabilities)
Hybrid-based
ONET: 31-1011.00
1
Years
15
Skills
700h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Understanding of communication issues between workers and consumers with disabilities
- Personal health and stress reduction
- Safety in the home
- Special care techniques -- including return demonstrations of ventilator- dependent care, tracheotomy care, catheter care and prevention of skin breakdown
- The philosophy of independent living, consumer and worker rights and responsibilities in relation to the rights of consumers with disabilities
- Overview of physical and sensory disabilities
- Review of safe transfers and proper lifting techniques, wheelchair and maintenance of specialized cushions designed to prevent skin breakdown
- Advanced infection control
On-the-job training
- Role of the Home Health Aide in Hospice and Palliative Care
- Recognize the influence of personal, spiritual and cultural values on perceptions regarding dying, death and bereavement and their impact on the quality of hospice and palliative care
- Demonstrate caring behavior and interpersonal connectivity while maintaining personal and professional bounderies
- Can describe the role of the hospice Home Health Aide in relation to patients, families, colleagues and agencies
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Home Health Aides’s role in pain management
- Can explain Living Will and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) procedures
- Perform personal care and health-related tasks within the Home Health Aide’s scope of practice and/or other regulatory parameters
- Cultural competence: Demonstrate cultural competence by respecting and honoring unique values, diversity and characteristics of patients, families and colleague in hospice/palliative care
- Respect diversity: including age, gender, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual, economic status, or differing abilities through the demonstration of knowledge, sensitivity and compassion when providing hospice/palliative care
- Enhance effective interdisciplinary team collaboration by demonstrating respect for awareness of the diversity of team members and their attitudes about hospice/palliative care
- Ensure effective communication through the appropriate use of translators/interpreters when clients speak languages different from those of the care team
- Honor individual preferences and choices for alternative therapies, practices and rituals, yet refrain from imposing own preferences and beliefs
- Communication and Problem Solving Skills
- Use sensitivity in verbal, non-verbal and written communication with or about clients, families, team members and other stakeholders when discussing issues related to hospice/palliative care
- Demonstrate professional, empathetic, and responsive communication that facilitate hope and exhibit a non-judgmental attitude in the care of clients and families
- Communicate openly, listen actively and provide a meaningful presence to facilitate the identification and discussion of client’s and families’ goals, preferences and needs
- Provide appropriate, accurate information based on the clients and families’ values and needs
- Does not impose unwanted information on the client and family regarding the disease process
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