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Job Description

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2061.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 44,840.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
Currently, there are 702,400 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses”.

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Tasks for “Home Health Care Provider”

Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.

Related Technology & Tools

Heart monitors
Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Telemetry units
Apnea monitors
Tracheotomy tubes
Safety jackets
Fabric body holders
Air fluidized beds
Pocket spirometers
Walkers
Wheelchair belts
Closed infusion systems
Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
Personal computers
Blood glucometers
Restraints
Patient lifters
Pulse oximeters
Oxygen masks
Oxygen supplies
Traction weights
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Compressor tabletop nebulizers
Abdominal binders
Needleless glucometers
Clinical trapezes
Rotating bed
Infusion controllers
Nebulizers
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Oxygen tubing
Traction equipment
Walking braces
Oxygen cylinders
Infusion sets
Mechanical stethoscopes
Lancets
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Knee braces
Digital spirometers
Wheelchairs
Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
Glucometers
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Ankle restraints
Safety belts
Hemovac drains
Canes
Crutches
Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
Jackson-Pratt drains
Personal computer PC-based spirometers
Open infusion systems
Balkan frames
Hemoglobinometer machines
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Intramuscular needles
Suture removal kits
Safety needles
Safety vests
Wrist restraints
Gait belts
Butterfly needles
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Tourniquets
Circo-electric beds
Desktop computers
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Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
Crutchfield tongs
Halo traction equipment
Gastric suction equipment
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Pediatric nebulizers
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Handheld spirometers
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Portable nebulizers
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Respiration monitors
Ostomy equipment
Electronic stethoscopes
Transfer boards
Infusion pumps
Flexible nasogastric tubes
Blood transfusion drip regulators
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Heparin locks
Electronic blood pressure units
Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Dialysis machines
Pneumatic boots
Notebook computers
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Syringes
Intubation suctioning kits
Personal digital assistants PDA
Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Limb restraints
Capillary tubes
Hollow needles
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
Safety infusion systems
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Lap belts
Neck braces
Automated external defibrillators AED
Bucks extensions
Frames
Urinary catheters
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Electrocardiography EKG units
Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Enema equipment
Ultrasonic nebulizers
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Posey vests

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