Home Health Aides Career, Salary and Skills
No national wage record is published for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Occupation description
Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
O*NET code
31-1121.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year
National salary and employment
Salary data is not available for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Service Orientation | 4.00 | 3.38 |
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 3.62 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.75 | 3.12 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Time Management | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Speaking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Instructing | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Typical tasks
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- 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.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
Technology
- AIGHD OASIS
- FaceTime
- Linux
- Mi-Co software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Oracle Database
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.