Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: Home health aides help and enable patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition and providing support and personal services. Some of their duties involve observing physical and mental conditions, providing housekeeping and laundry services, assist patients with bathing and changing, and help family members to care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient.

Salary: $ 20,100                                                                                             

Education: In order to become a home health aide you must not have a high school diploma but is better if you do for if you want to do something else in the future. You must complete on the job training from nurses or assistants.

Reflection: I would like to become a home health aide because you can help out disabled people or old people and it pays alright. It’s a good job because it’s an easy job that you can learn really fast.