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Home Health Aides
Description
Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.
Common Tasks
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
Required Education
No formal educational credential
Wages
In 2016 the mean hourly wage in the Greater Sacramento area was $14.50 . The hourly rate for this occupation typically paid between $9.36 and $26.29 .
In 2016 the mean annual salary in the Greater Sacramento area was $30,153.62 . The annual salary for this occupation typically paid between $19,466.78 and $54,678.29 .
Occupation Outlook
This occupation employed 1,590 people in the Greater Sacramento area during 2014.
By 2024, there is expected to be an increase of 33.3% in the number of jobs in the Greater Sacramento area for this occupation, bringing to total number to 2,120.
By 2024, in the Greater Sacramento area, the median hourly rate for this occupation is expected to be $12.00 with the median annual salary reaching $25,096.
