Home Health Aide Training

One of the issues that you may have to deal with when working with home health care patients is the problem of caring for an ostomy. An ostomy is a medical device which is installed in the person’s abdomen to replace the basic functions usually handled by the genitals or the anus to evacuate waste [...]

Oftentimes, as a home health care aide, your job will include helping a patient to prepare food. While the standard rules of food preparation do apply for most of your patients (i.e. following the Food Pyramid), there are also a large number of different modified diets, some of them quite complex that you may need [...]

As a professional home health aide, your primary job will involve providing personal care to your patients. This means taking care of a wide variety of different tasks to ensure that they are healthy and safe. Some examples of common tasks that you’ll need to take care of include: Bathing – Making sure that your [...]

One of the most common situations you’ll face as a home health care aide is working with people who are physically disabled. This means dealing with people who have disabilities which prevent them from engaging in the full range of motion possible for a non disabled person. Disabilities can range from mild disabilities to major [...]