How do they match: Home Health Aides

  • Patient Care Assistant
  • Patient Service Representative
  • Care Worker
  • Caregiver
  • Direct Care Counselor
  • Direct Care Professional
  • Direct Care Worker
  • Health Care Assistant
  • Home Care Aide
  • Home Care Attendant
  • Home Care Giver
  • Home Care Provider
  • Home Health Care Provider
  • In Home Caregiver
  • Personal Care Aide
  • Resident Care Aide
  • Resident Care Associate
  • Resident Care Provider

  • Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.

  • Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
  • Care for children who are disabled or who have sick or disabled parents.
  • Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
  • Bathe patients.
  • Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
  • Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
  • Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
  • Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
  • Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
  • Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
  • Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
  • Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.

  • Accompany patients or clients on outings to provide assistance.
  • Administer therapy treatments to patients using hands or physical treatment aids.
  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
  • Assist patients with daily activities.
  • Engage patients in exercises or activities.
  • Feed patients.
  • Teach basic living or other adaptive skills to patients or caregivers.