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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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