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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Scheduling software
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Microsoft Excel
Telephone triage software
Medical procedure coding software
Word processing software
Infusion management software
MEDITECH software
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Medical condition coding software
Electronic medical record EMR software
Spreadsheet software
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office