Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide 

Duties and Responsibilities: Home health aide enables patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition, providing support and personal services. . You must support the patient by providing housekeeping and laundry services, shopping for food and other household requirements. Help patients care for themselves. Help family members care for the patient, and record patient information while maintaining a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment.

Salary: Around $22,000 per year.

Education: There is no standardized educational requirement for HHAs. In some states, not even a high school diploma or equivalent is required. Other states require HHAs to take preparation classes before they begin working.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to become one? Why or why not?
-This seems like a very appealing job with good pay but I would personally like a career that will challenge me and not just accept me even though I do not have a high school diploma or equivalent.